How to Open Command Prompt as Administrator on Windows 11

To open a Command Prompt as an Administrator on Windows 11, Right-click the Start button and choose Windows Terminal (Admin) from the menu that appears.

That will open the Windows Terminal App. By default, it runs Windows PowerShell.

If you want to open a CMD, click the down arrow button next to the plus button and choose Command Prompt (the keyboard shortcut is Ctrl+Shift+2).

Windows 10

On Windows 10, you will not see Windows Terminal (Admin) in the right-click menu of the Start button. Instead, there is an option called Windows PowerShell (Admin), which opens the Powershell Console.

If you want to switch to the CMD within the PowerShell Console, type cmd and press Enter.

You can run just about every CMD command on PowerShell. However, none of the PowerShell commands are available in CMD.