Many technology enthusiasts like to share the cool its and bits of the UI from the latest & greatest software that has become their new favorites, among each other. And yes, many a times they do cross the legal boundaries.

So what do you do when you get a cease & desist notice?

Well, if you're a tech-enthusiast and do not have affiliations with some factory-based piracy operations or much worse - a shoddy design team that's gonna rip off the very company (read Apple/Microsoft or your favorite company) that built your new favorite thing. There is not much you can do but comply. But hey, do it the Long Zheng way when the Microsoft A-Team served him a notice about this blog post.

This year's biggest FPS game for the PC - CRYSIS™ (Crytek/EA Games) was released worldwide yesterday. Every FPS fan out there must get this game. I can see that the CRYSIS™ Nanosuit will gain the iconic stature shared by the HEV Hazard Suite adorned by Gordon Freeman. It's a shame though that I can't even buy the just-announced nVidia 8800GT priced at a sweet price of $250 I'll need to play it on my home desktop.

The game contains -

An Epic Single Player Campaign – Players are thrust into the middle of a global conflict between the US and North Korea over a mysterious artifact that turns out to be extraterrestrial in nature. Fortunately, players are outfitted with a high tech Nanosuit that allows them to alter their strength, speed, armor and cloaking abilities and an arsenal of fully customizable weapons, helping to even the playing ground against a highly mysterious and intelligent enemy threat.

Multiplayer Reinvented – Crytek has also focused much of their development efforts in creating two unique multiplayer experiences. PowerStruggle is a new, team-based multiplayer mode where players need to work together strategically to capture resource points throughout the map to win the ultimate arms race for nuclear technology. And for those who are looking for a more action-packed experience Crysis also features Instant Action, traditional deathmatch made even more frenetic as every player is outfitted with the revolutionary Nanosuit.

CryENGINE 2TM Sandbox Editor – Also included with Crysis is the complete version of Crytek’s Sandbox Editor. Extremely powerful with a simple user interface, the editor will give the community full access to one of the most powerful design tools in the industry.

If you need to run the command prompt with elevated privileges on a regular basis if not as often as the standard command prompt. You probably would have have probably created a shortcut in the start menu programs folder or your desktop for easy access.

But how do can you visually differentiate between a normal command prompt window from an elevated command prompt window. Of course, the title of elevated CMD.exe is prefixed by "Administrator: " followed by <Your Shortcut Name> e.g. I always name my shortcut "ELEVATED CMD" so the title says "Administrator: ELEVATED CMD". But there's another way, you can set the colors of the command prompt windows to be visually different. I bet its easier for you to see which command prompt window below is running with elevated privileges.

Normal vs. Elevated Command Prompt

So all you gotta do is change the colors of the command prompt once inside Admin. Elevated mode and again for the normal command window (that you usually invoke via typing "CMD" in Start Menu's Run Command). You might receive a prompt to save the settings for the current Window or the shortcut that launched this window, choose the latter option. I prefer to work with white background so I have set it to Green text for Normal and Maroon for ELEVATED CMD whereas the color for popup text in both cases is gray.