Windows – How to run program from command line with elevated rights

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Is there a way to run a program or command with elevated rights when I am already in a non-elevated command line?

Exactly the same action that would be performed when I click on the program shortcut and select Run as administrator.

The runas command is probably not a solution – it asks for a password, but I just want the UAC dialog.

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It looks like this utility - Hidden Start - will do what you wish if you use the /uac switch. Here's an example command line:

hstart /UAC "notepad.exe"

This will pop up the UAC dialog rather than ask for a password like runas does.

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You can take advantage of PowerShell, which is present on every modern Windows system.

Split the commands that need elevation off into a separate batch file, e.g. elevated.bat. Then, when it's time to run them, use this from your non-elevated script:

powershell -command "Start-Process elevated.bat -Verb runas"

The -Verb runas part is what causes the elevation prompt. If the original batch file is already running as admin, or if UAC prompts are off, the new file will be elevated without a prompt.

Note that the elevated batch processor's current directory will start out as System32. If that's a problem, you can use this alternate version to have it start in the same directory as the non-elevated script:

powershell -command "Start-Process cmd -ArgumentList '/c cd /d %CD% && elevated.bat' -Verb runas"

That causes the new cmd instance to first cd into the directory provided by the unelevated prompt's %CD% variable, then execute the desired batch file.

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