This is very odd, have a new Win 7 laptop and when I go to launch cmd I will normally use CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER and then I get a UAC prompt to launch as admin. Well on this laptop it won't work. Works on ...

When you try to start CMD you get 'Command Prompt has been disabled by your administrator'. I got around it by hex-editing CMD.EXE and replacing the P in the unicode POLICIES string inside CMD to a D, ...

Vista takes some getting used to, doesn’t it? Especially User Account Control (UAC) and the effects it has on doing things like running simple tasks. For example, if you open an ordinary command ...