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How to use the runas command in Windows to elevate privileges.

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The runas command in Windows allows a user to elevate their level of privileges to run a command as the Administrator user. The example below shows the usage of the runas command to open another cmd window as the Administrator user. C:\Users\mike\Documents\openvpn>runas /user:Scott\Dobbo cmd Enter the password for Scott\Dobbo: Attempting to start cmd as user … Read more