You right click command prompt in the start menu and choose run as administrator in the context menu then accept the UAC prompt and then you'll be in the command line with elevated privileges. Hth Cory
Sent from my iPhone On 2012-05-03, at 8:07 AM, "Evan Reese" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Guys, > > I'm using WE 7.2 and Vista Home Premium. I want to find out how much disc > space is devoted to shadow storage, which seems to be what people call the > space devoted to System Restore. From what I've been able to find out from > Google, unlike in XP and Windows 7, I have to use the Command prompt to do > this in Vista. According to what I've read, before I can issue the command to > find how much storage is allocated, I have to choose Run As Administrator > from some drop down menu that is supposed to appear when I'm in the Command > prompt screen. However, I cannot seem to find this menu. I've tried the usual > methods for finding a menu, the alt key and shift-f10, but nothing appears. I > cannot even find any indication of any menu with the mouse pointer. > > Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get this menu to appear? I've tried > the command to tell me how much shadow storage is allocated, just to see what > would happen, and indeed, it seems that, even though I can install programs > and change other settings, I do not have the privellege to run the command to > inform me of how much shadow storage I have. I may or may not want to adjust > it, but I first need to find out how much it is in the first place. > > Or, is there some accessible utility that I can get that will let me find out > this information, and should I decide to do so, adjust the amount of space > allocated? > > Thanks for any help with this. > > Evan > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
