To open Windows 11 Command Prompt with Administrator privileges, you need to open the Command Prompt in a certain way. First, click the Start Menu and type cmd into the search field.

C:\Windows\Notepad.exe: Opens up the Windows Notepad so you can view and edit text files. Ad-Aware: Make sure you update the program in normal mode before running it in the Command Prompt.

The Windows Command Prompt certainly isn't the most friendly terminal around, and if you're coming from a UNIX background, it can feel like moving from a Ferrari to Fred Flintstone's car. Luckily ...

Windows PowerShell is a newer program that's similar to Command Prompt. And in some versions of Windows 10, it replaces Command Prompt in the menus you'd usually use to open it.

And you can use the old standby Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V keyboard strokes to copy and paste text to and from a command prompt. Let's check it out. Right-click on the Windows 10 Start button.