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How do I know if I'm running command as Admin?
How do I know if I'm running command as Admin?

Struggling to install the agent on Windows? Can't find the agent status? You might need to check that you're running the commands correctly.

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Written by Naomi Purvis
Updated over a week ago

When running the installation command, or agent status you must be doing so as Admin. To do that, when you open up the command prompt, you want to right click and select 'Run as administrator' as shown below:

So long as you don't close that window, all subsequent commands run in that command terminal will be run as Admin, as shown below:

If you do close it, and the command prompt looks like this, you'll need to relaunch it and select 'Run as Administrator:

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