Are you looking for the CMD in Windows 10? Even though Windows 10 is an operating system strongly supported by its GUI environment, we must not forget that it has a powerful shell or command line environment (undoubtedly less friendly than the previous one) that makes it possible to carry out a multitude of operations within the system with a very fine grain of execution.
Desde la aparición de Windows 7, este entorno está siendo abandonado por la eficiente PowerShell (que nos proporciona un entorno mucho más avanzado que la consola clásica, con una API y la oportunidad de crear y ejecutar Scripts), pero para la ejecución básica de commands in Windows 10 most users will find the normal console sufficient. In this guide we will explain how to run it on Windows 10 and even invoke it with administrator privileges, so that you can have access to the full potential that this tool offers.
Since Windows 8, there are two ways to invoke the console commands in Windows 10. Asimismo, podemos hacerlo con privilegios de Username normal o con privilegios de Administrador, lo que nos permitirá ejecutar comandos más delicados dentro de nuestro entorno y tener acceso a carpetas del sistema que estén protegidas. Para esto, podemos seguir cualquiera de los siguientes pasos
From the system start menu, doing by right-clicking or pressing the key combination Windows + X, we will get a screen similar to the next one. As you can see, here we can select the level of execution privileges that we want.

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CMD in Windows 10 from the search engine
From the system start menu, we are going to present the text cmd and we will click on the application or, using the key combination CTRL + SHIFT + ENTER, to start it with elevated privileges. This key combination also works for the previous step.
This method also works in any Windows Explorer window. Basically type CMD and hit the ENTER key to open the command window.
Many readers will find this command very useful, allowing them to explore the ins and outs of this great operating system a little more.
CMD in Windows 10 from task manager
We can also access the Windows 10 command window from the task manager. Basically we open it and do one of the following steps:
- Type CMD and agree to open
- We press the CTRL key and without releasing we click on «Execute new task». The command window will open automatically.