

Under the Windows Terminal badge, click on the downward-facing arrow to expand more links related to the Windows Terminal.ģ. Click on the Search icon in the taskbar to open Search and then type Windows Terminal in the available search field at the top of the window.Ģ. You can open the Windows Terminal from Search easily enough, but the option to run it with administrative permissions is a little more challenging because it’s hidden with some other information that didn’t fit on the outside of the badge within Search itself. Method One: How to Open Windows Terminal (Admin) from Search Some tasks will require administrative permissions before the operating system will allow you to run them, and those tasks can only be run from the elevated version of the Windows Terminal.Īn example of the different shells that can be selected from the Terminal menu: Like with the Command Prompt and Windows Powershell, there are two versions of the Windows Terminal: the one with elevated/administrative permissions and the one without. Windows finally advanced beyond the old Command Prompt and Windows Terminal standalone apps with a stable version of the Windows Terminal app in November of 2020, when Windows 10 was the current leading operating system in the market. One of the features that Windows used to lack until recently was a modern terminal that competed with others like what you would find on Linux. Microsoft made computers accessible for average families, and for that people like me will always be thankful.

Many people love the Windows operating system even though it might have been lacking some features in the past because for them it was nostalgic: most people who are adults today grew up with a Windows machine for the simple fact that computers used to be really expensive and so most households had the cheaper versions. The following tutorial demonstrates how to open the elevated Windows Terminal app with its administrative permissions, aka as an administrator, when using a version of the Windows 11 operating system.
