Opening PowerShell as an administrator will give you the ability to execute scripts with administrative rights. To speed up your skills, you have to know how to run PowerShell as an Administrator in different ways, especially if you are using Windows Server 2022. For example, you are running commands in Command Prompt, and you need to open PowerShell. You should be able to open PowerShell directly from Command Prompt instead of minimizing Command Prompt and opening PowerShell in another way.

Run PowerShell as Administrator From Graphical User Interface

The Windows Server 2022 comes with two major types, Desktop Experience, and Core versions. The Desktop Experience editions will allow you to do tasks in a graphical environment, but using the core versions, you have to run PowerShell, and CMD commands.

Start Menu: to open PowerShell with administrative capabilities from the start menu, click on the Windows icon or press the Windows key. Right-click on Windows PowerShell, then click on Run as administrator.

Search Bar: if for any reason you unpin PowerShell from the Start menu, you can open it from the windows search bar. Type Windows PowerShell in the search bar, right-click on it, then click on Run as administrator.

Windows Run: press Win+R to open the Run, type PowerShell in it, then press Ctrl+Shift+Enter.

It is easy to run PowerShell using GUI tools, but sometimes you are not in the graphical interface. A good example is Windows Server core editions. You must know how to run PowerShell from the command line interface.

Click on this article to learn how to replace PowerShell with cmd in Windows 10?

Run Powershell as Administrator From Command Line Interface

In non-GUI windows operating systems, you will have to use Command Prompt and PowerShell to do tasks. There is no Run or Start menu to open PowerShell. You will use Command Prompt.

Command Prompt: Open Command Prompt, type PowerShell, and press Enter key. The PS will be added at the beginning of your commands. It means you have opened PowerShell but not as an administrator. Execute the Start-Process PowerShell -Verb runAs command. Enter a username and password with administrative access.

PowerShell: if you opened PowerShell on your computer and want to open it as administrator. Just execute the Start-Process PowerShell -Verb runAs command, then enter the administrator user name and password.

The ability to work in both GUI and CLI is important for everyone using Windows Server. I hope that I can cover every detail about how to run PowerShell as an administrator in Windows Server 2022.

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Command line is used mostly by power users. It gives you the abilities to do any action almost without any limitation. So, If you want to learn how to use command prompt for your next operation, this article is for you. Besides learning the basic command, you will learn some power user  commands as well. Additionally, it will empower your skill. Because what command line does, GUI can’t. We have collected the top 10 essential and useful command line commands that will help you in daily tasks.

10 Useful Command line Commands

1. Check internet connection.

An effortless command that will check where you have internet access or not. Most of the times your wifi icon lie.  So, you must use the following command to check your internet.

ping technig.com -t

If you see any reply, you have internet; otherwise, there is no internet. The -t flag means, pings the specified host until stopped. You can stop by Ctrl + C

2. System Information

To see your computer systems information like system manufacturer, system model, system type and more, so use the following command.

systeminfo

The list is long. It gives you almost every detail you want on your computer.

3. Save a Command’s Output to a File

The 2nd command shows a lot of information about your system. If you want to give those data to anyone else, you save to a notepad file. Subsequently, use this command.

systeminfo > C:\data.txt

Note: This command needs administrator access. Press Win button and search form cmd, then right click and run as administrator.

Now, it should save all of those data in the root of C:\ directory.

4.  Enable QuickEdit to Easily Copy/Paste

This is not a, but it will help you copy/paste text to command line or from command line quickly.

1. Open your cmd
2. Right-click on the window bar
3. Go to Properties.
4. Check to Quick Edit Mode

Once you check, click save and you are done.

5. See the Command History

To check which command you have used in the last session of using the command line, use the following command.

doskey /history

I should show just the command you have run so far.

C:\Users\Technig>doskey /history
systeminfo
systeminfo > c:\mydata.text
doskey /history

6. Directory Operations

For creating, deleting and changing directory, using the following commands.

Create directory:

mkdir dirName

Delete directory:

rmdir dirName

Change directory:

C:\Users\Technig>cd Desktop\dirName

Note: The rmdir command assumes you don’t have any subdirectories if you have, use the /s flag to remove everything.

rmdir DrivePath /s

// for example 

rmdir photo /s

7. View Drive’s Entire Directory Structure

Use the following command to see a drives entire directory structure. Don’t run it a drive actually; it will take a while to list all directories structure. So, it’s useful for folders.

tree

Just run the command in the current directory.

It will show the structure of that folder and subfolders as a tree.

8. Change Command Prompt Title Bar Text.

This one is fantastic and easy. You see the title bar by default is just the directory name. So, there is how you can change it.

title I am Command line User

Looks good right.

9. Open Command Line form Any Directory.

It’s a bit hard and time killer to navigate from on the directory to another directory. For instance, you want to go from C drive to D, it would take a few commands to go, but there is a short way.

In any directory you are, just press Shift+right-click, you will see the open command line here.

If you don’t see anything or just see the PowerShell, So read how to replace Powershell with Command Line here.

10. See All Your Computer Drivers.

You need this command to check which drivers you have and which one you don’t. So run the following command to list all drivers.

driverquery

It should show all drivers with the model name, display name, driver type and link date.

Conclusion

All in all, we have lots of other commands to learn. I think for this article, it’s enough. Also, we will bring you more useful command line commands in the future articles. Besides, if you have any good command to share with us, feel free to command below.

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