Windows – Why is “run this program as an administrator” disabled

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I need to stop some services so I made a cmd file but it doesn't work because it needs to run as admin.
When I right click on the file and choose Properties, I see that "run this program as an administrator" is disabled. Why? How do I turn it on?

The UAC is enabled (but set not to dim the screen) and for other programs (exe files) that box is enabled.

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As a workaround you can try this.

Create a shortcut to the batch file
Right-click on the shortcut and select properties
(Ignore the option on the compatability tab which is still disabled)
Select the Shortcut tab
Click on Advanced
Select 'Run As administrator'
Click on Ok

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I have had UAC turned off for quite a while now

I suspected that UAC was off while reading the question.

A lot of people misunderstand what the "Run As Administrator" option does. That has nothing to do with using an account named Administrator or an account that is part of a group named Administrators. It has everything to do with running a program in a way where UAC will recognize that the program has elevated privileges. The "Run As Administrator" option does not affect what user account is being used to run the program.

(I wish the option was called "Run Elevated". As is, the phrasing of that option has confused a lot of people.)

Call it a confusingly-named option if you like, but if you Shift+"Right-click" an icon, you may see the "Run As Administrator" option only if UAC is enabled. Otherwise, that item simply won't exist. This might have changed a bit with newer operating systems, but this is how this worked in Windows 7 (and Windows Vista).

Therefore, I'm not at all surprised that this keyboard shortcut doesn't work. I haven't regularly used this shortcut, but it sounds like this shortcut simply performs the functionality of a feature that just doesn't even exist unless UAC is enabled.

Windows – How to configure the application to run as administrator automatically

What you need to do is embed an application manifest into the EXE.

Save the following as a text file called App.exe.manifest:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0">
    <trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3">
        <security>
            <requestedPrivileges>
                <requestedExecutionLevel level="requireAdministrator" uiAccess="false"/>
            </requestedPrivileges>
        </security>
    </trustInfo>
</assembly>

Download the Windows SDK.
Inside you'll find mt.exe i.e. the Manifest Tool. Invoke it as follows:
```
mt.exe -manifest "App.exe.manifest" -outputresource:"App.exe";#1
```
If there are no errors you're done. You can delete the manifest file and distribute just the EXE. Running it should make it automatically request admin access every time.

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