Wow! We opened up a big can of worms with our tip on what your computer stores about your Web browsing — and not just the stuff your browsers store in temp files. It seems some of our friends using Vista ( and maybe other versions of Windows, although we found on Windows 7 no elevation was needed) cannot run a simple IPCONFIG \/FLUSHDNS or IPCONFIG \/DISPLAYDNS \u00a0without administrator privileges. Well, sorry Vista friends, we don’t have a Vista computer handy. We have XP, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, but no Vista.<\/p>\n
But anyway, running a command prompt with admin privileges isn’t hard to do. In Vista and Windows 7:<\/p>\n
1. Type CMD into the start menu search box<\/p>\n
2. When it appears at the top of the search results (it will be a little black icon) right-click it and choose Run As Adminstrator.<\/p>\n
3. Now you can run your IPCONFIG \/DISPLAYDNS or IPCONFIG \/FLUSHDNS commands ( or any other command which requires it ) with elevated privileges.<\/p>\n
For Windows 8<\/p>\n
Type CMD on the start screen – Windows search will show the Command Processor icon (still small and black). Right-click on the CMD icon and choose “Run as administrator”.<\/p>\n
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