{"id":107340,"date":"2022-11-01T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=107340"},"modified":"2022-10-31T21:23:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T04:23:25","slug":"20221101-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20221101-00\/?p=107340","title":{"rendered":"What is a “Select Administrator”? Is that some special elite kind of administrator?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A customer wanted to know why, when they opened a command prompt, the title was “Select Administrator”.<\/p>\n

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Select Administrator: C:\\Windows\\System32\\cmd.exe<\/div>\n
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Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]<\/tt><\/div>\n
(c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.<\/tt><\/div>\n
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C:\\Windows\\System32><\/tt><\/div>\n
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What is a “Select Administrator”? Is that some special elite kind of administrator?<\/p>\n

No, that’s not what “Select Administrator” is saying.<\/p>\n

In fact, it’s not even “Select Administrator”.<\/p>\n

The clue is the white box in the command prompt window that the customer included in the screen shot.<\/p>\n

That white box is evidence that the user clicked in the command prompt window with the mouse and initiated a selection. When a selection is active, the word “Select” is added to the front of the title.<\/p>\n

What we really have is two unrelated adornments. One for selection, and another for elevation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Selection<\/td>\nTitle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u2193<\/td>\n <\/td>\n\u2193<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Select<\/td>\nAdministrator:<\/td>\nC:\\Windows\\System32\\cmd.exe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n\u2191<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\nElevation<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The customer noted that they get this “Select Administrator” only when they launch the command prompt a certain way from a specific program. My guess is that the customer is double-clicking something that launches the command prompt on a single click. The command prompt appears after the first click, and the second click goes to the command prompt and triggers the selection.<\/p>\n

So the solution is to single-click, not double-click. If you double-click by mistake, you can hit Esc<\/kbd> to exit selection mode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s two different messages that combine in an interesting way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-107340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-tipssupport"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

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