{"id":920,"date":"2009-01-20T19:15:22","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T13:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/?p=920"},"modified":"2009-01-20T19:17:04","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T13:17:04","slug":"the-requested-operation-requires-elevation-error-in-vista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/2009\/01\/20\/the-requested-operation-requires-elevation-error-in-vista\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The requested operation requires elevation&#8221; error fix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While executing a command in Windows Vista command prompt you might get the error &#8220;<strong>The requested operation requires elevation.<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/ipconfig-flush-dns-the-requested-operation-requires-elevation.jpg\" alt=\"The requested operation requires elevation\" title=\"The requested operation requires elevation\" width=\"500\" height=\"251\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-921\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/ipconfig-flush-dns-the-requested-operation-requires-elevation.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/ipconfig-flush-dns-the-requested-operation-requires-elevation-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In my case, I got the error while trying out the <strong>ipconfig \/flushdns<\/strong> command to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/2009\/01\/20\/clear-dns-resolver-cache-in-windows\/\">clear DNS resolver cache in Windows VISTA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is actually part of the User Account Control (UAC) feature of Windows Vista that controls the program execution as normal user, administrator or other user types with different access control. You will get this prompt because that program will need to be run as administrator, so the quick way to fix it is re-run by right clicking the program and select Run as administrator.<\/p>\n<p>To do so, first click on the &#8220;<strong>Start<\/strong>&#8221; button.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/start-button.jpg\" alt=\"Click on the Start button\" title=\"Click on the Start button\" width=\"351\" height=\"75\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-914\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/start-button.jpg 351w, https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/start-button-300x64.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then click on &#8220;<strong>All Programs<\/strong>&#8220;:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/all-programs.jpg\" alt=\"All Programs\" title=\"All Programs\" width=\"463\" height=\"171\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-922\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/all-programs.jpg 463w, https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/all-programs-300x110.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Under &#8220;<strong>Accessories<\/strong>&#8221; group you will find the &#8220;<strong>Command Prompt<\/strong>&#8220;.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/accessories-command-prompt.jpg\" alt=\"Accessories - Command Prompt\" title=\"Accessories - Command Prompt\" width=\"425\" height=\"595\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-923\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/accessories-command-prompt.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/accessories-command-prompt-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now <em>right<\/em> click on the Command Prompt and click on &#8220;<strong>Run as administrator<\/strong>&#8220;.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/run-as-administrator.jpg\" alt=\"Run as administrator\" title=\"Run as administrator\" width=\"443\" height=\"358\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-924\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/run-as-administrator.jpg 443w, https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/run-as-administrator-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><br \/>\n<!--adsense--><br \/>\nNow you will be on the command prompt as administrator and perform all commands.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/ipconfig-flushdns1.jpg\" alt=\"Run command prompt as administrator\" title=\"Run command prompt as administrator\" width=\"500\" height=\"251\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-925\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/ipconfig-flushdns1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/ipconfig-flushdns1-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While executing a command in Windows Vista command prompt you might get the error &#8220;The requested operation requires elevation.&#8221; In my case, I got the error while trying out the ipconfig \/flushdns command to clear DNS resolver cache in Windows VISTA. This is actually part of the User Account Control (UAC) feature of Windows Vista [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,13],"tags":[69],"class_list":["post-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-tips","category-tutorials","tag-windows-vista"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}