Command line option to open program as administrator in Windows 7
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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.
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Take a look at runas /? in command prompt.
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- Press Win + R to open the run command line
- Type
notepad C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
I believe this should open your hosts file in Notepad as an adminstrative user. It does for me anyway.