Sudo for Windows: Elevated Commands Without Opening a New Window

🪟 Microsoft brought sudo to Windows 11 — and it’s now built into the system

Sudo for Windows lets you run elevated commands directly from an unelevated terminal — no need to open a new PowerShell or CMD window as administrator.

⚡ How to enable it:

1. Windows 11 build 26045 or later
2. Settings → Developer Features → Enable Sudo

🛠️ Operating modes:

• forceNewWindow — opens a new elevated window (classic behavior)
• disableInput — elevates but without interactive input
• inline — runs in the same terminal (most similar to Linux sudo)

📝 Important: NOT a port of Linux sudo It’s a native Windows implementation of the same concept. Permissions and the command-line experience are completely different between operating systems.

sudo netstat -ab
sudo New-Item -Path C:\Windows\test.txt

💡 Explanation in a nutshell

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On Linux, sudo lets you run a command as a superuser without switching sessions. Windows always required opening a new admin window. Now, with Sudo for Windows, you can run elevated commands directly in your current terminal — a small change with a big impact on the workflow of developers and system administrators.

More information at the link 👇

GitHub - microsoft/sudo: It's sudo, for Windows

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