How to run cmd with Admin privileges using command line

Question

Is there a way to run/start cmd as administrator through the command line or a batch file programming in Windows 8?

I want to create a batch file which has administrative privileges without any prompt to the user.

Answer 1

runas /profile /user:administrator “Driver:\folder\program”

For example, the administrator account is “AAA” and you want to run BBB.exe of C:\programs, you should follow these steps:

1. Press Win key & R
2. Input “CMD” in open box and click “OK”
3. Input: runas /profile /user:AAA “C:\programs\BBB.exe” and press “Enter”
4. Input the password of administrator AAA
5. Press “Enter”

Hope it works.

Answer 2

You can use runas.exe /savecred /user:administrator cmdor refer this link

Answer 3

REM  --> Check for permissions  
>nul 2>&1 "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\cacls.exe" "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\config\system"  

REM --> 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"^) > "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"  
    echo UAC.ShellExecute "%~s0", "", "", "runas", 1 >> "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
    "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
    exit /B  

:gotAdmin  
    if exist "%temp%\getadmin.vbs" ( del "%temp%\getadmin.vbs" )   
    pushd "%CD%"  
    CD /D "%~dp0"  

Answer 4

You can download already created portable and clean (generated in the Windows XP) shortcut files set: https://sourceforge.net/p/contools/contools/HEAD/tree/trunk/Scripts/Tools/ToolAdaptors/lnk/

Or even generate your own: https://sourceforge.net/p/contools/contools/HEAD/tree/trunk/Scripts/Tools/ToolAdaptors/vbs/

Usage example:

cmd_admin.lnk /C ...

Each lnk file just a link to the cmd.exe, so you can pass here all the cmd.exe command line options.

Pros:

• You don't need a localized version of Administrator account name like for the runas method.

Cons:

• You start elevated only the cmd.exe process. To start any other process you have to either run it from the cmd.exe script, or create another standalone shortcut with the Run as Administrator flag raised.
• Run from shortcut file (.lnk) in the Windows XP (but not in the Windows 7) brings truncated command line down to ~260 characters.
• Run from shortcut file (.lnk) loads console windows parameters (font, windows size, buffer size, etc) from the shortcut at first and from the registry (HKCU\Console) at second. If try to change and save parameters, then it will be saved ONLY into the shortcut, which brings the shortcut file overwrite.