sudo in Windows VISTA

If you are a command line junkie and end up doing almost everything from a command prompt, you will find that the problem is that Windows Vista doesn't have a built-in command to launch an application in administrator mode.

Thankfully Brandon Paddock has created an extremely useful tool called Start++ that has a built-in sudo command. 

To launch a command in "sudo" mode from the start menu, just preface it with "sudo", which will launch the application in administrator mode.

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It even works from the command line:

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Download Start++ from BrandonTools [5]