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   Todd to Todd   
   Re: run as administrator question   
   17 May 13 17:37:03   
   
   From: Todd@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 05/11/2013 06:13 PM, Todd wrote:   
   > On 05/10/2013 10:23 PM, foxidrive wrote:   
   >> 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:"   
   >   
   > Okay, the "redirects" came out as quotes.  HTML quotes   
   > to boot.  Now I see what is happening.   
   >   
   > Still have no clue what is going on.  Is there a way   
   > to take my example and put it into a single line?   
   >   
   > Many thanks,   
   > -T   
   >   
      
   Hi Foxidrive,   
      
   You know what?  I am finding that since I have to go and   
   find the script I wrote with Windows Explorer anyway, it is   
   very easy to just right click and run as Administrator.   
      
      
   Thank you for the help!   
      
   -T   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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