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If I want to open Notepad and edit the hosts file, I have to invoke the Start menu, find the Notepad shortcut, right click and run as administrator, then open the hosts file in Notepad in order to edit.
Is there a way to use the command line to open Notepad as administrator? Something like press win + R and enter notepad /admin. Is this possible?
Stan
Posted 2011-07-07T08:42:35.523
Reputation: 6 535
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You can do it a little bit faster by pressing Win, type in Search notepad and press Ctrl + Shift + Enter.
Or you can keep a command-prompt window open with higher privileges all the time and if some program needs to be opened with elevated privileges just start it from there with for instance: start notepad.
Casual Coder
Posted 2011-07-07T08:42:35.523
Reputation: 3 614
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Take a look at runas /? in command prompt.
quanta
Posted 2011-07-07T08:42:35.523
Reputation: 968
This is not much of an answer. Can you elaborate? – Peter Mortensen – 2015-07-21T10:33:26.177
@PeterMortensen When you run that help command (runas /?) they provide this example: runas /env /user:DOMAIN\ADMINNAME "notepad hosts" which opens the hosts file, but it still fails to grant write permissions... – Armfoot – 2015-09-09T11:20:26.193
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notepad C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hostsI believe this should open your hosts file in Notepad as an adminstrative user. It does for me anyway.
Andrew Butterworth
Posted 2011-07-07T08:42:35.523
Reputation: 111
1That's not correct, the notepad is not run as administrator. – Viktor Seč – 2017-11-28T13:48:26.853
Appreciated! It's strange that
runas /env /user:DOMAIN\ADMINNAME "notepad hosts"asks for the admin password, but when saving it still does not have enough permissions. YourCtrl+Shift+Entersolution seems to give the right access: it worked for me :) – Armfoot – 2015-09-09T11:17:55.390