by Saurabh
10. November 2007 14:44
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.