Windows run command as administrator cmd

All you have to do is use the runas command to run your program as Administrator (with a caveat).

runas /user:Administrator "cmdName parameters"

In my case, this was

runas /user:Administrator "cmd.exe /C %CD%installer.cmd %CD%"

Note that you must use Quotation marks, else the runas command will gobble up the switch option to cmd.

Also note that the administrative shell (cmd.exe) starts up in the C:WindowsSystem32 folder. This isn’t what I wanted, but it was easy enough to pass in the current path to my installer, and to reference it using an absolute path.

Caveat: Enable the admin account

Using runas this way requires the administrative account to be enabled, which is not the default on Windows 7 or Vista. However, here is a great tutorial on how to enable it, in three different ways:

I myself enabled it by opening Administrative Tools, Local Security Policy, then navigating to Local PoliciesSecurity Options and changing the value of the Accounts: Administrative Account Status policy to Enabled, which is none of the three ways shown in the link.

An even easier way to accomplish this:

C:> net user Administrator /active:yes

Let’s consider several ways to run a program as an administrator in Windows 10 to fix errors: “CreateProcess failed; code 740“, “The requested operation requires elevation“, “Access is denied“, etc. that occur when running programs with limited rights (user, the guest).

By default, programs and games in Windows 10 run without administrator rights to prevent unauthorized changes to your system. But this is a common case when for the program to work correctly, it needs to be run with elevated rights (administrator), to work correctly or to execute certain commands.

⚠️ Attention: to run the program with elevated rights, you need to know the administrator password!

Content

1. Application Icon
2. File properties
3. Start menu (context menu)
4. Start menu (keyboard shortcut)
5. Run menu
6. Explorer Ribbon
7. Windows Search
8. Command prompt (CMD)
9. PowerShell
10. Batch file

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🧐 It might be interesting:
1️⃣ 8 Ways to Run Command Prompt as Administrator
2️⃣ 7 Ways to Run PowerShell as Administrator

Application Icon

How to run the program as administrator once, using the program icon:

1. Right click on the program icon;
2. Select Run as administrator.

File properties

The method is to always run the program with administrator rights using the File Properties menu.

1. Right click on the program icon;
2. Select Properties;
3. Open the Compatibility tab;
4. Check the Run this program as an administrator box;
5. Click OK.

This setting will allow this program to run continuously with elevated rights for that user only. If you want to allow the program to run with administrator rights for all computer users, in the previous window, click the Change settings for all users button and check the Run this program as an administrator box.

Run the program with elevated rights using the context menu in the Start menu.

1. Open the Start menu (Ctrl+ESC);
2. Find the program icon in the All Programs list;
3. Right-click on the program icon, select: More -> Run as administrator.

In the same way, you can launch App Tiles in Windows 10, 8.

A mouse click and keyboard shortcut in the Start menu is another way to run program as administrator.

1. Open the Start menu (Ctrl+ESC);
2. Find the program icon in the All Programs list;
3. Hold down the Ctrl+Shift keys and click on the program icon.

The way to run the program with full rights using the Run menu.

1. Press the Windows+R key combination (or right-click on the Start button and select Run);
2. Enter the command name or drag the program icon into the Run menu entry window;
3. Press the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+Enter.

Explorer Ribbon

An easy way to run any program as administrator is using the Windows 10 Explorer ribbon.

🔔 If the Explorer Ribbon is not displayed in the folder menu, press Ctrl+F1.

1. Select the program icon in Windows Explorer;
2. In the folder menu, open the Application Tools tab;
3. Select Run as administrator.

Windows Search

You can also run the program with administrator rights using Windows 10 Search.

1. Press Windows+S (or right-click on the Start button and select Search);
2. Enter the name of the required program;
3. On the right side of the window, click Run as administrator.

Run program as administrator Command prompt (CMD)

One-time launch of the program as administrator – using the Windows command line (CMD).

An easy way to start is to run Command Prompt as administrator, from which the required program is launched. But you can also run from the CMD console (with user rights) using the runas command.

1. Run Command Prompt;
2. Run the runas command, specifying the username with administrative rights and the full path to the file of the program to be launched;
3. Enter the password for the user with administrative rights.

runas /user:MHelp.pro "C:totalcmdTOTALCMD.EXE"

Run program as administrator using PowerShell

Another way to run the program with elevated rights is by using Microsoft PowerShell.

An easy way to start is to run PowerShell as administrator and run the required program. But you can also start from the PowerShell console (with user rights) using the start-process command.

1. Start PowerShell;
2. Run the start-process command, specifying the full path to the file of the program to be launched;
3. Enter the password for the user with administrative rights.

start-process "C:totalcmdTOTALCMD.EXE" –verb runas

Batch file

In some cases, using the previous methods may be inconvenient, let’s create a bat file with instructions for running the program.

A batch file is a script file in DOS, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows. It consists of a series of commands to be executed by the command-line interpreter, stored in a plain text file.

Wikipedia

1. Launch the standard Notepad application;
2. We indicate the required sequence of commands;
3. In the File menu, select the Save As item;
4. In the File name field, specify the file name and add the .bat extension;
5. In the File type field, specify All files;
6. Click the Save button.

Now you can run the program with administrator rights by running the created file.

Find out more commands that can be used in bat files – link.

🟢 How to run the program as administrator was discussed in this article. I hope you now know how to fix error 740 or “The requested operation requires elevation” by running the program with elevated privileges in a convenient way. However, if you run into any problems while setting up, feel free to write in the comments. I will try to help.

This works for me on all platforms, including Windows 10. My needs are simple, perhaps you can adapt the approach if you need power.

I came up with a small script named, sudo.cmd named for the Linux sudo command. It works well enough it think. I’ve outlined the requirements, the steps to follow and the script is near the bottom with an example. First a word of warning.

WARNING:
The command runs in the windows System directory by default. You will want to cd to somewhere safe first.

requirements:

• Run command with Administrator a privileged from windows .CMD
  or the cmd-shell.
• require the normal Windows privilege checks on the command
  • In other words the command will NOT work unless I am already
    logged in with a privileged account.
• Execute the command with Admin permission and continue when
  called inside a script. So wait for the command to complete.
• Be simple so it will always work
• Not need to enter a password every time, if I’m already logged in.
  • A better method would be if I can enter password once as does
    the real sudo command on Linux.

solution:

1. Create a command script to execute all the arguments passed, sudo.cmd
2. Create a Windows short-cut to the command script name it: sudo.lnk.
3. Put the sudo short-cut in your windows PATH so it can be seen.
4. Edit the short-cut properties, make the Start in: path empty.
5. Click the [Advanced] button — Check Run as Administrator
6. Enable short-cuts in your windows path, use the PATHEXT environment variable, viz.

d:> echo %PATHEXT%
    .lnk;.EXE;.CMD;.BAT;.COM

When you type sudo dir on the command-line Windows will show the

User Account Control

Do you want to allow this app to make changes to this device?

  [YES]  [NO]

Access control pop-up. If you click «[NO]» nothing will happen. Windows will show an «Access is denied.» message.

When you click «[YES]» then the directory command runs at an elevated privilege. Of course you probably want something more interesting like stopping or query on a service:

 sudo sc query SDRSVC

SDRSVC is the service name for «Windows Backup service», this shows the following in a separate Cmd window:

  [sudo]

   administrator
  ---------------

  sc query SDRSVC

SERVICE_NAME: SDRSVC
        TYPE               : 10  WIN32_OWN_PROCESS
        STATE              : 4  RUNNING
                                (STOPPABLE, NOT_PAUSABLE, ACCEPTS_SHUTDOWN)
        WIN32_EXIT_CODE    : 0  (0x0)
        SERVICE_EXIT_CODE  : 0  (0x0)
        CHECKPOINT         : 0x0
        WAIT_HINT          : 0x0

  [done]

Press any key to continue . . .

The sudo.cmd script itself is very basic. As I said my needs are simple. I just want to stop and start services while I deploy code for testing.

sudo.cmd:

 @echo off
 @rem    sudo.cmd
         cd /d %temp%
 @echo.
 @echo.   administrator
 @echo.  ---------------
         cd 
 @echo.
 @rem  _________________________________________________
 @rem      -- Print usage . . .
        @if    [""]      ==["%~1"]   goto USAGE
        @if /i ["--HELP"]==["%~1"]   goto USAGE
 @rem  _________________________________________________
 @rem
 @echo.  %*
 @rem
         %*
 @rem
         set EXIT_STATUS=%ERRORLEVEL%
 @rem  -- -- -- -- --  
 @echo.
 @echo.  [done]
 @rem  ______________________________________________________
 :Exit
 @echo.
 @pause
  exit /b  %EXIT_STATUS%
 @rem  ______________________________________________________
 :USAGE
 @echo.
 @echo  ^Usage:
 @echo.    sudo ^<complete command line^>
 @echo.
 @echo.  Attempts to rune the: ^<complete command line^>
 @echo.  under Administrator priviliges.  Relies on Windows 
 @echo.  prompt for elevated privileges.
 @rem  ______________________________________________________
 @goto Exit

The pause command waits for you to review the results. If you take pause out the administration window closes and you don’t know if the command worked or not. The ERRORLEVEL from the command is returned as well.