Man, back on Windows for my new studio computer ‘verve‘. Needed to figure out how to edit C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts and that was certainly more difficult than it needed to be.

In the end I used “Method 3” over here to add an “Open in Notepad (Admin)” item to my shell context menu:

• Open regedit
• Navigate to: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell
• Add a new key ‘runas’ under ‘shell’
• Change (Default) to: Open with Notepad (Admin)
• Add a new key ‘command’ under ‘runas’
• Change (Default) to: notepad %1