Comments on: Always Run a Batch File as an Administrator

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 21:51:43 +0000

doesn’t need to do this under xp

By: Gary

Gary — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 19:17:57 +0000

In Windows 7, there is no need to run a batch file to restart the spooler service. Open up ‘Device and Printers’, right click on your default print device and select ‘Troubleshoot’. If it finds a problem with the Spooler service, it will restart it.

By: Bryan Klumpp

Bryan Klumpp — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:58:09 +0000

I am having the same problem as Thomas, on Windows 7 x64 Professional. Tried with and without cmd /c

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 05:00:06 +0000

Hey Im running windows 7 trying to get this to work on my computer with a batch file. Only even when I make a shortcut the always run as admin box is greyed out and cant be selected how does one go about correcting this?

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:44:36 +0000

This doesn’t work for me (Vista Pro x64). I did as instructed, tried with cmd /c as well. All I have in my (test) BAT file is ‘pause’ so I’d expect it to pause but it doesn’t. It does when ran as a non-admin but doesn’t neither when right-clicked and Ran as Administrator nor with the shortcut trick.

By: Tariq

Tariq — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:32:21 +0000

Hi Tony,

I had created a batch file for my mom but was laking Admin rights option (Windows 7) – now everything works fine :)

Thank You.

By: sneha

sneha — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:52:48 +0000

how can i login as admin within a batch file. I also want to do. I tried runas command. but it is prompting password. I want to run one batch file from normal user login but i want it to run with administrative privilage. and also i dont want user to know about the password also.

please help me…

By: jon

jon — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:26:42 +0000

thanks – works a treat. i was trying to sort it out for a while without success – by trying to login as admin from within the batch file.
jon

By: Kevin Bailey

Kevin Bailey — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:43:38 +0000

Any chance of explaining how a batch file can be made to run with admin privileges by a normal user.

I know about the security risks etc and am fine with the implications. We need to fix a bug introduced with Vista SP1 and the users need to run a batch file to fix this issue.

Please email me at the supplied address.

Thanks

By: JorGe

JorGe — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:43:49 +0000

I did it like you said but when the computer starts the windows defender blocked the .bat file, how can a resolve it?

By: John

John — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 06:41:53 +0000

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

By: Reader Question: Running an old FoxPro exe file in vista that is invoked with a Batch file to allow printing on a USB port printer - Windows Vista help

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:35:57 +0000

[...] 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”. [...]

By: ekis

ekis — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:39:52 +0000

can u explain me this article for microsoft windows xp???????