Right Click to Open Elevated Command prompt in Vista

To open command prompt with administrator privileges by right clicking on a directory in windows explorer: copy the following text and save it in a file with extension .reg. Then right click it and select merge.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\runas]
@=”Open Admin Command prompt Here”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\runas\command]
@=”cmd.exe /s /k pushd \”%V\”"

Similarly if you need to open Visiual Studio 2008 command prompt with elevated permissions in Vista use this to create the registry file:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\runas]

@=”Elevated VS 2008 Command Prompt”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\runas\command]

@=”cmd.exe /s /k pushd \”%V\” && \”C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\Tools\vsvars32.bat\”"

Installing ANT

1. Download the latest zip from http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi.
2. Extract it to a directory. For example C:\Users\Joe\apache-ant-1.7-bin.
3. Edit your environment variables: On Windows XP: Right click on
   My Computer and select properties, then select Advance tab. On
   Vista: Right click on Computer and select properties => Advanced
   System Settings, then click on Environment Variables button.
4. Add two system environment variables:
   JAVA_HOME = C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_01
   ANT_HOME = C:\Users\Joe\apache-ant-1.7-bin
5. Edit PATH envroment variable and add the following to the end:
   ;%JAVA_HOME%\bin;%ANT_HOME%\bin;