This is very odd, have a new Win 7 laptop and when I go to launch cmd I will normally use CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER and then I get a UAC prompt to launch as admin. Well on this laptop it won't work. Works on ...

As a TechSpot reader you've surely opened software as an admin on Windows before – maybe as recently as today – so the function probably isn't foreign to you. However, we were curious to know more ...

Lots of the Windows Vista tweaks that I’m going to talk about here require an elevated Command Prompt session. The easiest way to get yourself an elevated command line is to click Start, type command, ...