Batch Script to Run as Administrator

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I m writing a client server checking program but it needs to run as Administrator   I want this to run silently on my network and users  and I don t want the  Run as  Administrator  prompt  Is there any beginning code that I can place into the batch file to make it auto-run as Administrator

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its possible using syntax   RUNAS   profile    env    netonly   user user Program  Key    profile Option to load the user s profile  registry   env Use current environment instead of user s   netonly Use the credentials specified only for remote connections   user Username in form USER DOMAIN or DOMAIN USER  USER DOMAIN is not compatible with  netonly  Program The command to execute   example     runas  env  user domain Administrator  lt program exe command you want to execute gt

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Solutions that did not work  No  The - create a shortcut    -  Compatibility -   run this program as an administrator    solution does not work   This option is greyed out in Windows 7  Even with UAC disabled  No  The runas  env  user domain Administrator  lt program exe command you want to execute gt  is also not sufficient because it will prompt the user for the admin password   Solution that worked  Yes  Disable UAC -  Create a job using task scheduler  this worked for me    Create a job under task scheduler and make it run as a user with administrator permissions   Explicitly mark   Run with highest privileges  Disable UAC so there will be no prompt to run this task   You can let the script enable UAC afterwards by editing the registry if you would want  In my case this script is ran only once by creation of a windows virtual machine  where UAC is disabled in the image   Still looking forward for the best approach for a script run as admin without too much hassle

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You could put it as a startup item    Startup items don t show off a prompt to run as an administrator at all   Check this article Elevated Program Shortcut Without UAC rompt

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Create a shortcut and set the shortcut to always run as administrator   How-To Geek forum Make a batch file to run cmd as administrator solution      Make a batch file in an editor and nameit bat then create a shortcut to it  Nameit bat - shortcut  then right click on Nameit bat - shortcut - Properties- Shortcut tab -  Advanced and click Run as administrator  Execute it from the shortcut

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Following is a work-around    Create a shortcut of the  bat file Open the properties of the shortcut  Under the shortcut tab  click on advanced  Tick  Run as administrator    Running the shortcut will execute your batch script as administrator

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You have a couple options    If you need to do it using only a batch file and native commands  check out How can I auto-elevate my batch file  so that it requests from UAC admin rights if required   If 3rd-party utilities are an option  you can use a tool like Elevate  It is an executable that you call with the program you want to run elevated as a parameter  Like this  elevate net share

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My solution  if you dont need to have  bat file  is to convert the batch file to  exe file then you will be able to set up run as admin

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As I have not found any simple script so far  here s my two cents   set ELEVATE APP Full command line without parameters for the app to run set ELEVATE PARMS The actual parameters for the app echo Set objShell   CreateObject  Shell Application    gt elevatedapp vbs echo Set objWshShell   WScript CreateObject  WScript Shell    gt  gt elevatedapp vbs echo Set objWshProcessEnv   objWshShell Environment  PROCESS    gt  gt elevatedapp vbs echo objShell ShellExecute   ELEVATE APP      ELEVATE PARMS         runas   gt  gt elevatedapp vbs DEL elevatedapp vbs

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echo off   call  isAdmin   if  errorlevel     0       goto  run    else       echo Requesting administrative privileges        goto  UACPrompt      exit  b    isAdmin     fsutil dirty query  systemdrive   gt nul  exit  b    run    lt YOUR BATCH SCRIPT HERE gt   exit  b    UACPrompt    echo Set UAC   CreateObject   Shell Application     gt    temp  getadmin vbs     echo UAC ShellExecute  cmd exe     c   s0   1        runas   1  gt  gt    temp  getadmin vbs        temp  getadmin vbs     del   temp  getadmin vbs    exit  B

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If all above answers is not to your liking you can use autoIT to run your file  or what ever file  as a specific user with their credentials    Sample of a script that will run a program using that users privelages   installAdmin    Func installAdmin         Change the username and password to the appropriate values for your system      Local  sUserName    xxxxx      Local  sPassword    xxx      Local  sDirectory    C  ASD4VM Download       Local  sFiletoRun    Inst with Privileges bat       RunAsWait  sUserName   ComputerName   sPassword  0   sDirectory  amp   sFiletoRun  EndFunc       gt Example   AutoIT can be found here  -  It uses a  ua3 format that is compiled to a  exe file that can be run

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Don t waste your time  use this one line command to run command line as administrator   echo createobject  shell application   shellexecute  cmd exe     runas  1  gt  runas vbs  amp  start  wait runas vbs  amp  del  f runas vbs   if you want to start any application with administrator privilege you will just write the hole path for this application like this notepad   in my program files for example    echo createobject  shell application   shellexecute   programfiles  Notepad   notepad   exe     runas  1  gt  runas vbs  amp  start  wait runas vbs

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I made this slight modification to Matt s script to enable it to run from within a single script  just add this to the beginning of any script requiring UAC invocation   but read below the code for an even better solution that I ve found on a blog          START UAC SCRIPT      if   2    firstrun  exit cmd  c   0  null firstrun  if   1    skipuac  goto skipuacstart   checkPrivileges NET FILE 1 gt NUL 2 gt NUL if   errorlevel       0    goto gotPrivileges   else   goto getPrivileges     getPrivileges if   1    ELEV   shift  amp  goto gotPrivileges   setlocal DisableDelayedExpansion set  batchPath   0  setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion ECHO Set UAC   CreateObject   Shell Application     gt    temp  OEgetPrivileges vbs  ECHO UAC ShellExecute   batchPath     ELEV        runas   1  gt  gt    temp  OEgetPrivileges vbs    temp  OEgetPrivileges vbs  exit  B   gotPrivileges  setlocal  amp  pushd    cd  d   dp0 cmd  c   0  skipuac firstrun cd  d   dp0   skipuacstart  if   2    firstrun  exit         END UAC SCRIPT             START OF YOUR OWN BATCH SCRIPT BELOW THIS LINE       My modification uses two file arguments as you can see  which isn t particularly elegant but does the job  and you can always hide them away at the tail end by reserving the first few arguments using dummy placeholders   Additionally  AFAIK Matt s script doesn t support spaces in file paths and this limitation also applies to my modification of this script    This issue seems to be inherent in the way VBS handles these paths but on the below link there s an even better VBS-based solution for invoking UAC that runs from within a single script without the need for a workaround like this using file arguments and that also supports spaces in file paths   http   pcloadletter co uk 2012 12 11 uac-elevation-for-batch-script   The script on this link makes slightly different VBS calls as you ll notice  which for some reason circumvents the issue with spaces

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