The requested operation requires elevation

6Jul2007 Filed under: Tips and Tricks, Windows Author: Kitkat

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You might run into this message “The requested operation requires elevation” when you are trying some naughty commands in Windows Vista. Refer to the screen shot below which comes up if you ran the ipconfig /flushdns command.

The requested operation requires elevation

Well, you get this message because you do not have enough privilege or permission to run the command, even if you were the administrator of the computer. Yes, Windows Vista is that stubborn; or has high security as Bill Gates says.

To get rid of this problem, you basically need to open the command prompt differently. Instead of opening the command prompt like how you usually do, you need to run the command prompt specifically as an administrator. To do this, you need to right click on the Command Prompt shortcut and select Run as administrator!

Confused? Let me show you a screen shot and you will understand better.

Run as administrator

After that, run your commands that you failed to run previously. You should face no further problems. Now, tell me, you love or hate Windows Vista?

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4 Responses to “The requested operation requires elevation”

Bbox
July 17th, 2007 at 9:25 am

I’m getting this warning when trying to open a ZIP file.

There is no context menu item that allows you to run as administrator.

Any ideas to get around this Vista “enhancement”?
Michael
August 7th, 2007 at 10:18 pm

I can use this method to bypass UAC:
I’ve logged into a power user account but when I ran some setup.exe, the UAC appear and required me to type administrator password. I didn’t want the setup to run under administrator so I right-clicked the Command Prompt shortcut, selected Run as administrator, in the UAC selected my user name and typed my password, and ran the program within cmd.exe.
nick
January 8th, 2008 at 9:12 pm

thx dude, the tip helped

also, i F()*)(*)*)*)(*) hate vista, it sucks the cick bock, stupid ppl who created should shoot themselves
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