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   foxidrive to Todd   
   Re: run as administrator question   
   11 May 13 15:23:58   
   
   From: not@this.address.invalid   
      
   On 11/05/2013 14:10, Todd wrote:   
   > On 05/10/2013 09:01 PM, foxidrive wrote:   
   >> On 11/05/2013 10:56, Todd wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> Currently in W7, if I want to run command from a   
   >>> command prompt as "administrator", I have to go   
   >>> to the start orb, type in "cmd" (no return) and   
   >>> right click on the resulting "cmd" and "run as   
   >>> administrator".   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> I call this one admin.bat and it gives me an Admin cmd prompt in Win 8.    
   You may get a UAC prompt but I   
   >> have that disabled.   
   >>   
      
   > Hi Foxidrive,   
   >   
   > I so don't understand.  There is a double and a tripple   
   > quote on the two %file% commands.  I always disable UAC   
   > too.  So what would the command line be?   
   >   
   > Confused,   
   > -T   
      
   You quoted the message so there were more > characters.  But look here with   
   leading spaces.   
      
      
      @echo off   
      if not "%~1"=="" goto :start   
      :getfile   
      set "file=%temp%\%random%.file.vbs"   
      if exist "%file%" goto :getfile   
      
      >"%file%" echo Set UAC = CreateObject("Shell.Application")   
      >>"%file%" echo UAC.ShellExecute "%~f0", "%cd%", "", "runas", 1   
      start "" "%file%"   
      goto :EOF   
      
      :start   
      
      cmd /k "cd /d "%*"&echo Admin:"   
      
      
      
      
      
      
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   foxi   
      
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