Are you looking for the CMD in Windows 10? Although Windows 10 is an operating system strongly supported by its GUI environment, we must not forget that it has a powerful shell or command line environment (certainly less friendly than the previous one) that allows a multitude of operations to be carried out within the system with a very fine grain of execution.
Since the appearance of Windows 7, this environment is being abandoned by the efficient PowerShell (which provides us with a much more advanced environment than the classic console, with an API and the possibility of creating and executing Scripts), but for the basic execution of commands in Windows 10 most users will find the normal console sufficient. In this guide we will show you how to run it in Windows 10 and even invoke it with administrative privileges, so that you can access the full potential that this tool offers.
Since Windows 8, there are two ways to invoke the console commands in Windows 10. Likewise, we can do it with normal user privileges or with Administrator privileges, which will allow us to execute more delicate commands within our environment and access protected system folders. To do this, we can follow any of the following steps
Commands in Windows 10 from the start menu
From the system start menuMaking right-clicking or pressing the key combination Windows + X, we will get a screen similar to the following one. As you can see, here we can choose the level of execution privileges that we want.
CMD in Windows 10 from the search engine
From the system start menu, we will introduce the text cmd and we will click on the application or, using the key combination CTRL + SHIFT + ENTER, to launch it with elevated privileges. This key combination also works for the previous step.
This method also works in any Windows Explorer window. Just type CMD and hit the ENTER key to bring up the command window.
Many of the readers will find this command very useful, which will allow you to explore the insides of this great operating system a little more.
CMD in Windows 10 from task manager
We can also access the Windows 10 command window from the task manager. We simply open it and do one of the following steps:
- Write CMD and accept to open
- We press the CTRL key and without releasing, we click on «Execute new task». The command window will automatically open.