Comments on: UAC and ktpass.exe http://blog.scottlowe.org/2007/07/09/uac-and-ktpassexe/ The weblog of an IT pro specializing in virtualization, storage, and servers Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:20:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: slowe http://blog.scottlowe.org/2007/07/09/uac-and-ktpassexe/#comment-34601 slowe Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:43:50 +0000 http://blog.scottlowe.org/2007/07/09/uac-and-ktpassexe/#comment-34601 Ian, Thanks for the tip! I'll be sure to use this tip in the future. Keep reading! Ian,

Thanks for the tip! I’ll be sure to use this tip in the future. Keep reading!

]]> By: Ian http://blog.scottlowe.org/2007/07/09/uac-and-ktpassexe/#comment-34596 Ian Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:23:27 +0000 http://blog.scottlowe.org/2007/07/09/uac-and-ktpassexe/#comment-34596 Scott, Excellent blog! I'm a CLI kind of guy myself, and this UAC limitation perpetually ticked me off as well. However, I found out that you can get a CLI shell with admin rights, but you need to use the GUI to get it. Click the start button, then SHIFT-Rclick the "Command prompt" icon. It should give you a "Run as Administrator" option. When you select that, you'll get the UAC prompt, but once you OK that, you'll get a CLI that runs as the built-in Administrator account. It's the only way I've seen so far on a Vista box to get a privledged CLI. V/R, Ian Scott,
Excellent blog! I’m a CLI kind of guy myself, and this UAC limitation perpetually ticked me off as well. However, I found out that you can get a CLI shell with admin rights, but you need to use the GUI to get it. Click the start button, then SHIFT-Rclick the “Command prompt” icon. It should give you a “Run as Administrator” option. When you select that, you’ll get the UAC prompt, but once you OK that, you’ll get a CLI that runs as the built-in Administrator account. It’s the only way I’ve seen so far on a Vista box to get a privledged CLI.

V/R,
Ian

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