How to open an elevated cmd using command line for Windows

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How do I open a elevated command prompt using command lines on a normal cmd   For example  I use runas  username admin cmd but the cmd that was opened does not seem to be elevated  Any solutions

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The following as a batch file will open an elevated command prompt with the path set to the same directory as the one from where the batch file was invoked  set OLDDIR  CD  powershell -Command  Start-Process cmd -ArgumentList   K cd  OLDDIR   -Verb RunAs

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Can use a temporary environment variable to use with an elevated shortcut    start cmd  setx valueName betterSpecificForEachCase   dp0    dp0ascladm lnk    ascladm lnk  shortcut     properties advanced  run as administrator  yes    to make path changes you ll need to temporarily create the env Variable     properties target   valueName betterSpecificForEachCase  ascladm cmd     properties  start in    valueName betterSpecificForEachCase     ascladm cmd  setx valueName betterSpecificForEachCase  reg delete HKEY CURRENT USER Environment  F  V valueName betterSpecificForEachCase    dp0fileName targetedCmd cmd       targetedCmd gets executed in elevated cmd window   Although it is 3 files  you can place everything  including targetedCmd  in some subfolder  do not forget to add the folderName to the patches  and rename  start cmd  to targeted s one name  For me it looks like most native way of doing this  whilst cmd doesn t have the needed command

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Press the Windows   X key and you can now select the Powershell or  Command Prompt with admin rights  Works if you are the admin  The function can be unusable if the system is not yours

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Dheeraj Bhaskar s method with Powershell has a missing space in it  alt least for the Windows 10 incarnation of Powershell   The command line inside his sudo bat should be  powershell exe -Command  Start-Process cmd    k cd  d  cd     -Verb RunAs    Note the extra space after  cd     Frode

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Make the batch file save the credentials of the actual administrator account by using the  savecred switch   This will prompt for credentials the first time and then store the encrypted password in credential manager   Then for all subsequent times the batch runs it will run as the full admin but not prompt for credentials because they are stored encrypted in credential manager and the end user is unable to get the password   The following should open an elevated CMD with full administrator privileges and will only prompt for password the first time   START c  Windows System32 runas exe  user Administrator  savecred cmd exe

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I did it easily by using this following command in cmd  runas  netonly  user Administrator Administrator cmd  after typing this command  you have to enter your Administrator password if you don t know your Administrator password leave it blank and press Enter or type something  worked for me

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I don t have enough reputation to add a comment to the top answer  but with the power of aliases you can get away with just typing the following   powershell  start cmd -v runAs    This is just a shorter version of user3018703 excellent  solution   powershell -Command  Start-Process cmd -Verb RunAs

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According to documentation  the Windows security model        does not grant administrative privileges at all   times  Even administrators run under standard privileges when they   perform non-administrative tasks that do not require elevated   privileges    You have the Create this task with administrative privileges option in the Create new task dialog  Task Manager   File   Run new task   but there is no built-in way to effectively elevate privileges using the command line   However  there are some third party tools  internally relying on Windows APIs  you can use to elevate privileges from the command line   NirCmd    Download it and unzip it  nircmdc elevate cmd   windosu    Install it  npm install -g windosu  requires node js installed  sudo cmd

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My favorite way of doing this is using PsExec exe from SysInternals  available at http   technet microsoft com en-us sysinternals bb897553    psexec exe -accepteula -h -u   username  -p   password  cmd exe   The  -h  switch is the one doing the magic   -h If the target system is Vista or higher  has the process run with the account s elevated token  if available

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I ve been using Elevate for awhile now   It s description - This utility executes a command with UAC privilege elevation  This is useful for working inside command prompts or with batch files   I copy the bin x86-64 elevate exe from the  zip into C  Program Files elevate and add that path to my PATH   Then GitBash I can run something like elevate sc stop W3SVC to turn off the IIS service   Running the command gives me the UAC dialog  properly focused with keyboard control and upon accepting the dialog I return to my shell

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ECHO OFF SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion EnableExtensions NET SESSION  gt nul 2 gt  amp 1 IF  ERRORLEVEL  NEQ 0 GOTO ELEVATE GOTO  EOF   ELEVATE SET this   CD   SET this  this        MSHTA  javascript  var shell   new ActiveXObject  shell application    shell ShellExecute  CMD     K CD  D    this           runas   1  close     EXIT 1   save this script as  god cmd  in your system32 or whatever your path is directing to       if u open a cmd in e  mypictures  and type god it will ask you for credentials and put you back to that same place as the administrator

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I m not sure the tool ExecElevated exe  13KB  will do the job    but it might  Or at least be useful for others with similar needs who came to this page as I did  but I didn t find the solution so I ended up creating the tool myself in  Net    It will execute an application with elevated token  in admin mode   But you will get an UAC dialog to confirm   maybe not if UAC has been disabled  haven t tested it    And the account calling the tool must also have admin  rights of course   Example of use    ExecuteElevated exe  C  Utility regjump exe HKCU Software Classes  pdf

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Similar to some of the other solutions above  I created an elevate batch file which runs an elevated PowerShell window  bypassing the execution policy to enable running everything from simple commands to batch files to complex PowerShell scripts   I recommend sticking it in your C  Windows System32 folder for ease of use   The original elevate command executes its task  captures the output  closes the spawned PowerShell window and then returns  writing out the captured output to the original window   I created two variants  elevatep and elevatex  which respectively pause and keep the PowerShell window open for more work   https   github com jt-github elevate  And in case my link ever dies  here s the code for the original elevate batch file    Echo Off REM Executes a command in an elevated PowerShell window and captures displays output REM Note that any file paths must be fully qualified   REM Example  elevate myAdminCommand -myArg1 -myArg2 someValue  if   1            REM If no command is passed  simply open an elevated PowerShell window      PowerShell -Command   amp   Start-Process PowerShell exe -Wait -Verb RunAs     ELSE       REM Copy command arguments  passed as a parameter  into a ps1 file     REM Start PowerShell with Elevated access  prompting UAC confirmation      REM     and run the ps1 file     REM     then close elevated window when finished     REM Output captured results      IF EXIST  temp  trans txt del  temp  trans txt     Echo      gt   temp  trans txt    gt   amp 1  gt   temp  tmp ps1     Echo  error 0     Add-Content  temp  trans txt -Encoding Default  gt  gt   temp  tmp ps1     PowerShell -Command   amp   Start-Process PowerShell exe -Wait -ArgumentList  -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File    temp  tmp ps1    -Verb RunAs       Type  temp  trans txt

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You can use the following syntax  I had the same question and did not think a script should be needed      runas  profile  user domain username cmd    This worked for me  it may be different on your network

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Here is a way to integrate with explorer  It will popup a extra menu item when you right-click in any folder within Windows Explorer   Here are the steps   Create this key   HKEY CLASSES ROOT Folder shell dosherewithadmin Change its Default value to whatever you want to appear as the menu item text  Ex  quot DOS Shell as Admin quot  Create this another key   HKEY CLASSES ROOT Folder shell dosherewithadmin command Change its default value to this  ipsis litteris  powershell exe -Command  quot Start-Process -Verb RunAs  cmd exe  -Args   k pushd  quot  1 quot   quot  It s done  Now right-click in any folder and you will see your item there within the other items    Use pushd instead of cd to allow it to work in any drive   -

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While both solutions provided by Dheeraj Bhaskar work  unfortunately they will result in the UAC dialog showing up on top  z-order-wise  but not getting focused  the focused window is the caller cmd powershell window   thus I either need to grab the mouse and click  yes   or to select the UAC window using Alt Shift Tab   Tested on Win10x64 v1607 build14393 447  UAC          do not dim           The following solution is a bit awkward as it uses two files  but it preserves the correct focus order  so no extra mouse   keyboard actions are required  besides confirming the UAC dialog  Alt Y     cmdadm lnk  shortcut properties   Advanced      Run as administrator   ON    SystemRoot  System32 cmd exe  k  cd  d   su bat   start cmdadm lnk  cd     Run with su

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I ran into the same problem and the only way I was able to open the CMD as administrator from CMD was doing the following    Open CMD Write powershell -Command  Start-Process cmd -Verb RunAs  and press Enter A pop-up window will appear asking to open a CMD as administrator

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Just use the command  runas  noprofile  user administrator cmd

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I used runas  user domainuser domain cmd which opened an elevated prompt successfully

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Simple way I did after trying other answers here  Method 1  WITHOUT a 3rd party program  I used this    Create a file called sudo bat  you can replace sudo with any name you want  with following content  powershell exe -Command  Start-Process cmd    k cd  d  cd    -Verb RunAs   Move sudo bat to a folder in your PATH  if you don t know what that means  just move these files to c  windows  Now sudo will work in Run dialog  win r  or in explorer address bar  this is the best part       Method 2  WITH a 3rd party program   Download NirCmd and unzip it  Create a file called sudo bat  you can replace sudo with any name you want  with following content  nircmdc elevate cmd  k  cd  d  cd    Move nircmdc exe and sudo bat to a folder in your PATH  if you don t know what that means  just move these files to c  windows  Now sudo will work in Run dialog  win r  or in explorer address bar  this is the best part

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For fans of Cygwin  cygstart -a runas cmd

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There are several ways to open an elevated cmd  but only your method works from the standard command prompt  You just need to put user not username   runas  user machinename adminuser cmd   See relevant help from Microsoft community

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I use nirsoft programs  eg nircmdc  and sysinternals  eg psexec  all the time  They are very helpful   But if you don t want to  or can t  dl a 3rd party program  here s another way  pure Windows   Short answer  you can while elevated create a scheduled task with elevated privileges which you can then invoke later while not elevated   Middle-length answer  while elevated create task with  but I prefer task scheduler GUI    schtasks  create  sc once  tn cmd elev  tr cmd  rl highest  st 00 00   Then later  no elevation needed  invoke with  schtasks  run  tn cmd elev   Long answer  There s a lot of fidgety details  see my blog entry  Start program WITHOUT UAC  useful at system start and in batch files  use task scheduler

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