How do you run a command as an administrator from the Windows command line

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I have a small script that performs the build and install process on Windows for a Bazaar repository I m managing  I m trying to run the script with elevated  administrative privileges from within the Windows shell  cmd exe --just as if I d right-clicked it and chosen Run as Administrator  but without using any method that requires use of the graphical interface

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A batch WSH hybrid is able to call ShellExecute to display the UAC elevation dialog      if  1  1   if 1  0   ELSE  echo off amp SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS  gt nul 2 gt  amp 1   SYSTEMROOT  system32 cacls exe    SYSTEMROOT  system32 config system         cscript   E JScript   nologo    f0       goto  EOF   echo Performing admin tasks    REM call foo exe  goto  EOF  end  ELSE ShA new ActiveXObject  Shell Application   ShA ShellExecute  cmd exe    c     WScript ScriptFullName          runas  5    end

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Browse to C  windows System32 and right click on cmd exe and run as Administrator  Worked for me on Windows 7   If you are trying to run a script with elevated privileges you could do the same for the script file or use the scheduler s run as a different user option to run the script

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Simple pipe trick      with some  vbs used at top of your batch  It will exit regular and restart as administrator    AT gt NUL  echo set shell CreateObject  Shell Application   shell ShellExecute    dpnx0     CD     runas   1 set shell nothing gt   n0 vbs amp start   n0 vbs  realtime amp  timeout 1  NOBREAK gt nul amp  del  Q   n0 vbs amp cls amp exit   It also del  Q the temp vbs when it s done using it

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Press the start button   In the search box type  cmd   then press Ctrl Shift Enter

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I would set up a shortcut  either to CMD or to the thing you want to run  then set the properties of the shortcut to require admin  and then run the shortcut from your batch file  I haven t tested to confirm it will respect the properties  but I think it s more elegant and doesn t require activating the Administrator account   Also if you do it as a scheduled task  which can be set up from code  there is an option to run it elevated there

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Although  amr ali s code was great  I had an instance where my bat file contained  gt   lt  signs  and it choked on them for some reason   I found this instead  Just put it all before your code  and it works perfectly   REM  -- gt  Check for permissions  gt nul 2 gt  amp 1   SYSTEMROOT  system32 cacls exe    SYSTEMROOT  system32 config system  REM -- gt  If error flag set  we do not have admin  if   errorlevel   NEQ  0        echo Requesting administrative privileges        goto UACPrompt   else   goto gotAdmin    UACPrompt     echo Set UAC   CreateObject   Shell Application     gt    temp  getadmin vbs      echo UAC ShellExecute    s0            runas   1  gt  gt    temp  getadmin vbs        temp  getadmin vbs      exit  B  gotAdmin     if exist   temp  getadmin vbs    del   temp  getadmin vbs        pushd   CD       CD  D    dp0   --------------------------------------

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------- Self-elevating bat --------------------------------------  whoami  groups   find  S-1-16-12288   gt  nul  amp  amp  goto  admin set  ELEVATE CMDLINE cd  d    dp0   amp  call    f0      findstr           sf0  gt temp vbs cscript   nologo temp vbs  amp  del temp vbs  amp  exit  b      Set objShell   CreateObject  Shell Application       Set objWshShell   WScript CreateObject  WScript Shell       Set objWshProcessEnv   objWshShell Environment  PROCESS       strCommandLine   Trim objWshProcessEnv  ELEVATE CMDLINE        objShell ShellExecute  cmd     c    amp  strCommandLine       runas   admin -------------------------------------------------------------   echo off echo Running as elevated user  echo Script file     f0 echo Arguments        echo Working dir    cd  echo     administrator commands here    e g   run shell as admin cmd  k   For a demo  self-elevating bat  path with spaces  arg2 3 4  another long argument   And this is another version that does not require creating a temp file    lt  --   --- Self-Elevating Batch Script ---------------------------  whoami  groups   find  S-1-16-12288   gt  nul  amp  amp  goto  admin set  ELEVATE CMDLINE cd  d    dp0   amp  call    f0      cscript   nologo    f0  wsf    job Elevate  amp  exit  b  -- gt   lt job id  Elevate  gt  lt script language  VBScript  gt    Set objShell   CreateObject  Shell Application     Set objWshShell   WScript CreateObject  WScript Shell     Set objWshProcessEnv   objWshShell Environment  PROCESS     strCommandLine   Trim objWshProcessEnv  ELEVATE CMDLINE      objShell ShellExecute  cmd     c    amp  strCommandLine       runas   lt  script gt  lt  job gt   admin -----------------------------------------------------------   echo off echo Running as elevated user  echo Script file     f0 echo Arguments        echo Working dir    cd  echo     administrator commands here    e g   run shell as admin cmd  k

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All you have to do is use the runas command to run your program as Administrator  with a caveat    runas  user Administrator  cmdName parameters    In my case  this was   runas  user Administator  cmd exe  C  CD  installer cmd  CD     Note that you must use Quotation marks  else the runas command will gobble up the switch option to cmd   Also note that the administrative shell  cmd exe  starts up in the C  Windows System32 folder  This isn t what I wanted  but it was easy enough to pass in the current path to my installer  and to reference it using an absolute path   Caveat  Enable the admin account  Using runas this way requires the administrative account to be enabled  which is not the default on Windows 7 or Vista  However  here is a great tutorial on how to enable it  in three different ways    I myself enabled it by opening Administrative Tools  Local Security Policy  then navigating to Local Policies Security Options and changing the value of the Accounts  Administrative Account Status policy to Enabled  which is none of the three ways shown in the link   An even easier way   C  gt  net user Administrator  active yes

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