How to code a BAT file to always run as admin mode

Question

I have this line inside my BAT file    Example1Server exe    I would like to execute this in Administrator mode  How to modify the bat code to run this as admin   Is this correct  Do I need to put the quotes   runas  user Administrator invis vbs Example1Server exe

User · Answer

The other answer requires that you enter the Administrator account password. Also, running under an account in the Administrator Group is not the same as run as administrator see: UAC on Wikipedia

Windows 7 Instructions

In order to run as an Administrator, create a shortcut for the batch file.

Right click the batch file and click copy
Navigate to where you want the shortcut
Right click the background of the directory
Select Paste Shortcut

Then you can set the shortcut to run as administrator:

Right click the shortcut
Choose Properties
In the Shortcut tab, click Advanced
Select the checkbox "Run as administrator"
Click OK, OK

Now when you double click the shortcut it will prompt you for UAC confirmation and then Run as administrator (which as I said above is different than running under an account in the Administrator Group)

Check the screenshot below

Screenshot

Note: When you do so to Run As Administrator, the current directory (path) will not be same as the bat file. This can cause some problems in many cases that the bat file refer to relative files beside it. For example, in my Windows 7 the cur dir will be SYSTEM32 instead of bat file location! To workaround it, you should use

cd "%~dp0"

or better

pushd "%~dp0"

to ensure cur dir is at the same path where the bat file is.

User · Answer

go get github com mattn sudo   Then  sudo Example1Server exe

User · Answer

You can use nircmd exe s elevate command  NirCmd Command Reference - elevate  elevate  Program   Command-Line Parameters    For Windows Vista 7 2008 only  Run a program with administrator rights  When the  Program  contains one or more space characters  you must put it in quotes    Examples    elevate notepad exe  elevate notepad exe C  Windows System32 Drivers etc HOSTS  elevate  c  program files my software abc exe    PS  I use it on win 10 and it works

User · Answer

Use the complete physical drive path to your Target batch file in the shortcut Properties   This does not work in Windows 10 if you use subst drives like I tried to do at first

User · Answer

I think I have a solution to the password problem  This single argument is truly amazing   It asks for the password once  and than never asks for it again   Even if you put it onto another program  it will not ask for the password   Here it is   runas  user Administrator  savecred Example1Server exe

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If you can use a third party utility  here is an elevate command line utility   This is the usage description   Usage  Elevate  -  -wait -k  prog  args  -     - Shows this help -wait - Waits until prog terminates -k    - Starts the the  COMSPEC  environment variable value and                 executes prog in it  CMD EXE  4NT EXE  etc   prog  - The program to execute args  - Optional command line arguments to prog

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My experimenting indicates that the runas command must include the admin user s domain  at least it does in my organization s environmental setup    runas  user AdminDomain AdminUserName ExampleScript bat   If you don   t already know the admin user s domain  run an instance of Command Prompt as the admin user  and enter the following command      echo  userdomain   The answers provided by both Kerrek SB and Ed Greaves will execute the target file under the admin user but  if the file is a Command script   bat file  or VB script   vbs file  which attempts to operate on the normal-login user   s environment  such as changing registry entries   you may not get the desired results because the environment under which the script actually runs will be that of the admin user  not the normal-login user   For example  if the file is a script that operates on the registry   s HKEY CURRENT USER hive  the affected    current-user    will be the admin user  not the normal-login user

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Just add this to the top of your bat file   set  params     cd  d    dp0   amp  amp    if exist   temp  getadmin vbs  del   temp  getadmin vbs     amp  amp  fsutil dirty query  systemdrive  1 gt nul 2 gt nul       echo Set UAC   CreateObject   Shell Application      UAC ShellExecute  cmd exe     k cd     sdp0    amp  amp    s0  params         runas   1  gt  gt    temp  getadmin vbs   amp  amp    temp  getadmin vbs   amp  amp  exit  B     It will elevate to admin and also stay in the correct directory  Tested on Windows 10

User · Answer

convert your batch file into  exe with this tool  http   www battoexeconverter com  then you can run it as administrator

User · Answer

You use runas to launch a program as a specific user   runas  user Administrator Example1Server exe

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