'Elevated position'

Hi. Compaq NX 6325 renovation. I've just been trying to use some dos commands to try to speed up a process. I received a message along the lines of 'you don't have sufficient privileges' and 'you should work from an elevated position'. I deem this to be a bit churlish. I assume I need the equivalent of an administrator?  How can I get to the privileged position?  TIA. J

If you're running DOS boxes within Windows, there are a couple of either BATCH or script files that will install a right-click Run as an Administrator or very similar wording onto your Windows context menu. On a tablet, both laptops are deep in windows critical updates -- cannot lookup the script names and sources right now.

Edited by RolandJS, 14 September 2019 - 04:30 AM.

T F R. You are quite right, I was attempting to work from a box inside Windows. Can I assume that if I had used dos outside of Windows I would have been able to issue the commands, (or gain Administrators privileges)? J

I have not used outside-of-windows-dos for some time, your guess is probably right, however, still fighting with long long windows update chains, cannot look up those script names or sources yet.

Windowsclub's ultimate windows tweak, the 2nd one, the non-w10 one, has a click box for run as administrator somewhere up in there. If you use uwt2, find only that one RaA click box, then lower right corner save, exit program, do nothing else with uwt2 - it is fast outliving its overall usefulness. You might have to restart W7, maybe not, if uwt2 worked, right click context menu shows Run as Administrator.

Edited by RolandJS, 14 September 2019 - 02:22 PM.

Thank you, Sir. Most grateful. J

Can I assume that if I had used dos outside of Windows I would have been able to issue the commands, (or gain Administrators privileges)?

The former is what we would expect. Elevated privilege is a status within Windows, or another Protected Mode Operating System.

DOS (e.g. MS-DOS or equivalent) is a Real Mode Operating System, in Real Mode a running process has control of the system. From the command prompt, the command processor in the DOS Executive starts the execution of a command and relinquishes control, that process can then perform any action until it completes running, and control is returned to the DOS executive. (Assuming the system doesn't crash...)

Edited by Platypus, 15 September 2019 - 06:46 AM.

Thank you Platypus. I cannot remember now, (I'm 81), the job that delayed my elderly laptop. I hope that others may benefit from this thread. J