Add an Admin CMD Prompt Icon to your Taskbar

andrewlen · Aug 26, 2021

How to pin a CMD icon to your Taskbar and configure it to open an Administrative Command Prompt

First, open an administrator command window. If you don't know how here's one way explained below.

Press your Windows Key and type CMD
On "Best match" (Command Prompt) click "Run as administrator"

An administrative command window opens. Leave it open for now and perform the following steps:

1) On your Taskbar, right-click the Command Prompt Icon

2) Click "Pin to Taskbar"

Right-click the Command Prompt Icon on your Taskbar again and continue to Step 3.

3) Right-Click the CMD Icon on your Taskbar

4) Right-Click Command Prompt

5) Left-Click Properties

6) Click the Advanced button

7) Check the "Run as administrator" box

8) Click the OK Button to close Advanced Properties

9) Click the OK Button to close the Command Prompt Properties box

Done!

You can now open an administrative (elevated) command prompt any time with a single click on the Command Icon on your Taskbar.

Hope you found this useful.

Regards, Andrew

DakotaL · Oct 21, 2021

This is so handy!

andrewlen · Oct 21, 2021

Glad you think so and got some value out of it DakotaL. My thanks for your feedback :)

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