However, the Dism command doesn’t always work for some users. The Command Prompt might sometimes display this error message after users enter the Dism command: That message drops more than a subtle hint as to how to resolve Elevated permissions are required to run DISM in Windows 10/11. You need to open an elevated Command Prompt (one with administrative rights) to utilize Deployment Image Servicing. So, fixing error 740 is straightforward.
What is an elevated permission?
A user is said to have elevated permission when additional capabilities beyond those of a standard user are assigned to that user. The administrator account has elevated privileges compared to a standard user.
How do I raise permissions to run DISM?
1. Select the Run the Command Prompt as an administrator option
First you need to open Windows 10’s search box. To do that, press the Windows key + S keyboard shortcut.
Type Command Prompt in the search utility then select Run as administrator from the right side, under the result.
Click Yes on the UAC dialog box that might open. An Administrator: Command Prompt window will then open.
Type in the Deployment Image Servicing command.
Press the Enter key to run the command. The Elevated permissions are required to run DISM issue should no longer appear.
If you are encountering the Elevated permissions are required to run DISM issue, the first thing you need to try is run the command-line tool you want to run DISM on with administrator rights.
Some users complained that they can’t access the Command Prompt as administrators. If that’s also your case, don’t worry, we got your back!
2. Select the Run new task option
3. Open an elevated Command Prompt with Run
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4. Set up a Command Prompt shortcut
How and why are elevated permissions used?
The CMD starts by default with limited rights and this is nothing but a security measure designed to prevent users from running commands that can irreversibly damage their PCs. While you won’t have any trouble executing most commands in standard mode, there are specific lines that require administrative privileges (aka elevated permissions). To put it shortly, you will need to run Command Prompt as administrator if you wish to perform SFC or DISM scans, for example. But the list is obviously longer than that. So what happens if you try to run such a command without admin rights? That’s easy and you’ve probably seen this behavior already (otherwise, you wouldn’t be here.) The Command prompt will display an error message and urge you to activate elevate permissions. Let’s see some examples:
You must be an administrator running a console session in order to use the SFC utility. Access Denied as you do not have sufficient privileges or the disk may be locked by another process. You have to invoke this utility running in elevated mode and make sure the disk is unlocked. Elevated permissions are required to run DISM. Use an elevated command prompt to complete these tasks.
Finally, setting the two instances apart is extremely easy as the title of the elevated Command Prompt window will be marked as Administrator and get you straight to the system root level, while the standard cmd.exe opens to your user’s folder and is simply marked as Command Prompt. These are the best solutions to try out in order to fix error 740: elevated permissions are required to run DISM. use an elevated command prompt to complete these tasks. Sometimes, the Run as Administrator option will not work. In this case, we recommend that you remove the problematic application that causes this issue. Alternatively, if you get access denied while using an administrator account, make sure to refer to our dedicated guide on this issue. Don’t forget to leave us a comment in the section found below this guide.
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