
- #How to create a shortcut on desktop in windows 8 how to#
- #How to create a shortcut on desktop in windows 8 windows 8.1#
In the next window, choose any name for the shortcut. In the next window, in the box under Type the location of the item, enter %windir%\system32\cmd.exe, and click Next, as shown below.Ĥ.

Right-click on an empty space on desktop and choose New > Shortcut, as shown below.ģ. Go to desktop by minimizing all open windows. You can even delete the desktop shortcut and the remaining pins from taskbar and start will continue to work, as they are actually linking to %windir%\system32\cmd.exe. You can right-click the desktop shortcut and choose Pin to Taskbar or Pin to Start if you wish, as shown below. You can tell you opened an elevated command prompt from the title of the window Administrator: Command Prompt, as shown below.Ĩ. That's it, the desktop shortcut will now open an elevated command prompt. In the Advanced Properties window, check the box Run as administrator and click OK, then OK in the previous Command Prompt Properties window as well. In the Command Prompt Properties Windows, select the tab Shortcut (it should be selected by default) and click Advanced, as shown below.ħ. Right-click the Command Prompt shortcut and choose Properties.Ħ. You can do that faster by pressing Win+D.ĥ. Minimize all open windows to get to the desktop. It opens a regular command prompt, so we'll have to alter its behavior in the next step.Ĥ. You will now have a new shortcut on Desktop, called Command Prompt. Right-click Command Prompt and choose Send to > Desktop (create shortcut), as shown below. This opens the Explorer at C:\Users\YourUser\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\System Tools where you can see a few symbolic links (we briefly covered symbolic links in our Mklink explained article).ģ. Right-click the Command Prompt result and choose Open file location, as shown below. Open Search by typing Ctrl+S and enter cmd in the search box.Ģ. Here are the steps to create the elevated cmd shortcut. When you use this shortcut, depending on your User Account Control settings, you will get a UAC prompt or not. Note that if you are logged in as a regular user, you will be asked for Administrator credentials when opening the shortcut.
#How to create a shortcut on desktop in windows 8 how to#
In this tutorial we'll show you 2 methods for how to create a desktop shortcut to an elevated command prompt and pin it to taskbar or start screen. To pin this shortcut to the Start screen, you need to unlock the the “Pin to Start Screen” menu item for all files in Windows 8.1.We explained before what an elevated command prompt is and how to open one in several ways under Windows 8. To pin this shortcut to the Taskbar, use the excellent freeware tool called Pin to 8.
#How to create a shortcut on desktop in windows 8 windows 8.1#
Note that Windows 8.1 does not allow you to pin this shortcut to anything, but there is a workaround.

