Open a command prompt with system rights in Vista (and XP)
Author: Peter Van Eeckhoutte
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| First of all, download psexec from the Microsoft website.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/psexec.mspx
From and elevated/admin command prompt (cmd.exe, "run as administrator"), run psexec –s cmd.exe
C:\>whoami
peter
C:\>psexec -s cmd.exe
PsExec v1.83 – Execute processes remotely
Copyright (C) 2001-2007 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals – www.sysinternals.com
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6000]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Windows\system32>whoami
nt authority\system
C:\Windows\system32>exit
cmd.exe exited on LAPTOP1 with error code 0.
C:\>
Type ‘exit’ to exit the "system" command prompt.
You can launch any other tool from that prompt, and it will inherit your system rights
© 2008, Peter Van Eeckhoutte. All rights reserved. Terms of use are applicable to this document.
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Tags: command prompt, psexec, russinovich, sysinternals, system permissions, vista, xp
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