What is the equivalent of sudo in Windows 7?
The runas command is the equivelent of sudo in windows 7.
runas [{/profile|/noprofile}] [/env] [/netonly] [/smartcard] [/showtrustlevels] [/trustlevel] /user:UserAccountName program
Run the following command to start a command shell as an administrator. EDIT: Or you could right click the command prompt and click Run As Administrator.
runas /noprofile /user:Administrator cmd
Runas is a pretty functional equivalent.
It's easiest to run CMD as administrator (or elevated, in the case of standalone desktop Windows), but there is the runas
command as well.