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If I want to open notepad and edit hosts file, I have to start menu, find notepad shortcut, right click and run as administrator, then open hosts file in notepad in order to edit.

Is there any way to use command line to open notepad as administrator? Something like press win + R and enter notepad /admin. Is this possible?

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You can do it a little bit faster with press Win, type in Search notepad and press Ctrl + Shift + Enter. Or you can keep open CommandPrompt window with higher privileges all the time and if some program needs to be opened with elevated privileges just start it from there with for instance: start notepad.

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Take a look at runas /? in command prompt.

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