Deter­mine if the sys­tem has the WSL with bash: where /R C:\windows bash.exe If bash.exe is there and the WSL is run­ning, then com­mands can be run as root (!) like: C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft-windows-lxss-bash_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.19041.423_none_1da742a41b53e164\bash.exe whoami Install the WSL To install the WSL, a sys­tem shell is required unfor­tu­natel­ly. See this arti­cle for instal­la­tion.