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Start elevated command prompt in %UserProfile% directory by default?

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 202615795 views
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Problem

When I start an elevated Command Prompt in Windows 7 or Windows Vista, the initial directory is the directory. This is the default Windows behavior, and is not a problem specific to my system, so I'm not expecting some sort of "bug fix" here, but rather a tweak to "fix" the default behavior. To rep…

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%SystemRoot%\system32

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Fix for: Start elevated command prompt in %UserProfile% directory by default?

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Opening an elevated command-prompt always starts in , the rationale being that if you are doing something requiring elevated privileges, you are likely to be working on system files as opposed to just the user’s own files which you can do without el…

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