Always Run a Batch File as an Administrator
You can run a command prompt or any application as an administrator by right-clicking it and then clicking Run As Administrator. If you have a batch file that you need to always run as an administrator, follow these steps so it runs with the proper privileges every time:
1. In Explorer, right-click the batch file and then click Create Shortcut.
2. Rename the new shortcut to something useful, such as “filename-admin rights.bat”.
3. Right-click the new shortcut, and then click Properties.
2. On the Shortcut tab, click the Advanced button.
3. Select the Run as administrator checkbox.
4. Click OK twice.
Now, when you double-click the batch file, UAC will prompt you for administrative privileges. You can use a similar technique to always run the command prompt as administrator, or to always run an application as administrator.
For more information, read the Windows Vista Resource Kit (co-authored by your very own Tony Northrup). Got a question for Tony? Send an e-mail to qa@vistaclues.com.
Posted: December 17th, 2006 under Administration, Security.
Comments: 4
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Comment from ekis
Time: March 23, 2007, 4:39 pm
can u explain me this article for microsoft windows xp???????
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Time: April 9, 2007, 2:35 pm
[...] You can configure a batch file to always run as an administrator (after a UAC prompt, of course) by creating a shortcut to it and then configuring that shortcut to run as an administrator, as I described in the article “Always Run A Batch File As An Administrator”. [...]
Comment from John
Time: April 23, 2007, 6:41 am
In addition to the above steps sometimes a batch file shortcut’s target will need to have cmd /c inserted before the batch file location.
For example a batch for with a target of:
c:\batchfiles\mybatch.bat
would need to be changed to:
cmd /c c:\batchfiles\mybatch.bat
Comment from JorGe
Time: November 12, 2007, 5:43 pm
I did it like you said but when the computer starts the windows defender blocked the .bat file, how can a resolve it?
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