There are times when you need administrator rights to run an application, often something as useful as a command prompt needs administrator rights to perform system tasks.
A quick way to do this if you have Cortana on your taskbar is to quickly type CMD into Cortana and you will be presented with a dialog like this:
![](http://softstuff-consulting.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/alternative_run_as_admin.png)
Select Run as Administrator and you are good to go
![](http://softstuff-consulting.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/administrator_command_prompt.png)