I run into this often enough that I thought Iād share this quick tip for
Windows 7 users.
Pinning something to the task bar so that itās always there ready to be run
is convenient, but if you also, as I do, occasionally need to run items as the
administrator, itās not obvious where the ārun as administratorā option is. In
fact, itās also not obvious how to run a second instance.
Iāll show you.
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Iāll use the Windows Command Prompt as my example, since itās not uncommon to a) want to run it as administrator occasionally, and b) want to run multiple copies of it.
Here it is, not running, pinned to my task bar:
Click on it, and itāll start an instance of the Command prompt.
Click on it again, and itāll ā¦ not start an instance, but rather toggle the already running instance between being minimized and being displayed.
Right click on it, and you get this popup menu which would seem to offer some hope:
Click on the Command Prompt in the popup menu and youāll get ā¦ a second instance of the Command Prompt.
But still no ārun as administratorā.
Hereās the trick: right click on that Command Prompt in the popup menu to get another popup menu:
Thereās the missing ārun as administratorā option weāve been looking for.
A couple of caveats:
Youāll either need to be logged in as an administrator, or perhaps have to supply the administrator password to run something as the administrator (thatās kinda the point).
Not all programs should be run as administrator. Make sure you know what youāre doing.
Not all programs support running multiple instances. Command Prompt obviously does, but other programs may simply cause the already running instance to come to the foreground.
There are times when you want a program to always be run as administrator. (Rare, but it does happen.) In that case, right-click the taskbar icon and right-click the program name, but then select āpropertiesā instead. From there, click āadvancedā, and one of the choices is ārun as administratorā.
Youāll still have the same UAC warnings, if enabled, but now all you have to do is click the icon to start it.
Also if you hold the āshiftā key and press right click you will get the normal right click menu with ārun as administratorā optionā¦.. best regards Dear Leo.
Hold down Ctrl + Shift + Alt and then click it!
I thought you were going to tell us how to make the taskbar icon default to Admin rights permanently. It would be good to find a way to remove the āShieldā from a taskbar icon permanently. For example, I use Winrar, but system doesnāt like me using it unless I provide Adminās password. How can we set the prog to permanently run with full rights?
Thanks
* Sorry; my previous comment should say Ctrl + Shift (Alt is not required)
thereās an easier way,
check this out
http://www.recipester.org/Recipe:Permanent_run_specific_application_as_Administrator_in_Windows_7_43539952
Shift + click on an app will open a second instance in many cases
once i click on run as administrator, i get an error message saying āthe extented attributes are inconsistentā. itās been preventing me from downloading anything. how to fix?
I already had found how to run as administrator from taskbar icon in Windows 7 Ultimate. However, on the new machine that I just built (also running windows 7 ultimate), I right-click on the taskbar button for the app, then right-click on the app icon, then click on āRun as administratorā, and nothing happens. This works on my old machine.
(ALL Windows updates are installed including SP1 and all subsequent through today. The app is Visual Studio 2008. Run as administrator does work by right-clicking on the main menu item for the app; it only fails from the taskbar.)
I also just tried Shift+right-click, as suggested by another commentor, and then selecting āRun as administratorā, and it still does not work. It only works from main menu.
Thanks, Iāll appreciate the help.