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Launching PowerShell as an administrator

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Launching PowerShell as an administrator

- I'm on a client machine running Windows 8.1 and I wanna work with PowerShell. Now, you probably have noticed, I've already got it pinned to my taskbar, but what I wanna do is, first of all, show you how to find it 'cause it doesn't come pinned by default on your client. It does on a server, but not on a client. So let me show you. I'm going to open up everybody's favorite screen here by hitting the Windows key, and there's a search button over here, so let's go ahead and click on the search button. I'm gonna start off by typing powershell. Now what you're gonna see is it's gonna bring up several options. This is the one that we want, but let me show you what the other ones are. We've got the Windows PowerShell ISE. This is for scripting and we're gonna do this later in the course. These are Windows PowerShell and the scripting program in 32-bit. Now, you wanna use the 64-bit one, which is Windows PowerShell. And what I'm gonna do is right-click on it and you can select to pin it to…

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