Have you ever wanted to run a program from command line with admin rights under Vista/7? The solution is a sudo clone. Start notepad.exe and copy the following text into a new text file and save it as sudo.cmd: @echo Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application") > %temp%\sudo.tmp.vbs @echo args = Right("%*", (Len("%*") - Len("%1"))) >> %temp%\sudo.tmp.vbs @echo objShell.ShellExecute "%1", args, "", "runas" >> %temp%\sudo.tmp.vbs @cscript %temp%\sudo.tmp.vbs Now copy the file to your Windows folder. Now you can sudo cmd.exe to easily start a command prompt with admin rights.