how to run a powershell script as administrator

Question

On my Windows 7 Desktop, I have script.ps1, which needs admin privileges (it starts a service). I want to click on this script and run it with admin privileges.

What's the easiest way to accomplish this?

Answer 1

Here is one way of doing it, with the help of an additional icon on your desktop. I guess you could move the script someone else if you wanted to only have a single icon on your desktop.

1. Create a shortcut to your Powershell script on your desktop
2. Right-click the shortcut and click Properties
3. Click the Shortcut tab
4. Click Advanced
5. Select Run as Administrator

You can now run the script elevated by simple double-clicking the new shortcut on your desktop.

Answer 2

Since it's sitting onto your desktop, I'd say the most effortless way to get this done is dragging it onto the elevation gadget.

Otherwise you could make a separate script using the elevate command on your ps1 script.

Or, you could apply elevate just to the service-starting bit.

Answer 3

if you are in the same powershell you could do this:

Start-Process powershell -verb runas -ArgumentList "-file fullpathofthescript"

Answer 4

You can run PowerShell scripts in Windows 7 using powershell_ise.

Step by step instruction can be found here.