Create Elevated Shortcut without UAC prompt in Windows 10  

Hello @phrab,

What happens when you right click on the .bat file, and click/tap on Edit instead?

Does it open it in Notepad to view?

Brink said:

Hello @phrab,

What happens when you right click on the .bat file, and click/tap on Edit instead?

Does it open it in Notepad to view?

Yes. It's not that the bat file doesn't run (& I did use it to create a shortcut to a game, just to test, & it worked). It's that when I click the resultant desktop shortcut, I get the message that Windows can't open this type of file. I expected it to create a new text file in Notepad.

phrab said:

Yes. It's not that the bat file doesn't run (& I did use it to create a shortcut to a game, just to test, & it worked). It's that when I click the resultant desktop shortcut, I get the message that Windows can't open this type of file. I expected it to create a new text file in Notepad.

Are you having issues opening just this shortcut (lnk) file, or all shortcuts?

I don't think you will be able to open this shortcut with Notepad though.

Brink said:

Are you having issues opening just this shortcut (lnk) file, or all shortcuts?

I don't think you will be able to open this shortcut with Notepad though.

All my .lnk shorcuts work, as far as I know. It's just the Notepad.exe & Metapad.exe that I've tested, to see if it would work. I expected the desktop shortcut (the one created with the bat file) to act as if I clicked on either of those executables.

phrab said:

All my .lnk shorcuts work, as far as I know. It's just the Notepad.exe & Metapad.exe that I've tested, to see if it would work. I expected the desktop shortcut (the one created with the bat file) to act as if I clicked on either of those executables.

I have noticed that this may not always work for games due to how they may run.

You might give option 2 a try to see how it does, and if the elevated shortcut will work or not.

Brink said:

I have noticed that this may not always work for games due to how they may run.

You might give option 2 a try to see how it does, and if the elevated shortcut will work or not.

Thank you. I actually don't need to use this method to run Notepad or Metapad. I just wanted to test to see if I understood it & could make it work. It actually did work on a game. If I open cmd or powershell & type notepad.exe or C:\Utilities\Metapad metapad.exe, they open new text files. So I figured this bat file would crate a desktop shortcut that would do the same.

Matthew Wai said:

Go to Task Scheduler-->Task Scheduler Library-->Apps. Right-click on the "Metapad" task-->Properties-->Actions. Do you see the following?



In my case, the shortcut will actually Start a program "D:\Testing\metapad.exe"
The command "D:\Testing\metapad.exe" works on Command Prompt.

Hi Mathew:

Thank you for responding. I downloaded your latest Create_an_elevated_shortcut.bat, from the link you provided. To answer your questions:
1. First, I had been looking in the wrong place in the Task Scheduler for the task. I looked under "Task Scheduler Library" & didn't expand "Apps". I see now that I have created several tasks. See the image below. And, yes, I see a similar task action.





2. When I click the resultant Metapad shortcut, I get the following message (see screenshot):


So it creates a shortcut on my desktop & creates a task in the Task Scheduler, which appears to have the correct action. However, when I click the shortcut, all it does is flash & then I get the screen above. When I press Escape, the screen goes away, but a new text file isn't created.

This is what I have in my Utilities Folder for your utility:



3. When I used your .bat file to run a game (Bridge Buff 19), it did work; i.e. there was a flash & then the game opened. I'm just not sure why it doesn't open a new text file for Notepad or Metapad.

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Matthew Wai said:

Go to Task Scheduler-->Task Scheduler Library-->Apps. Right-click on the "Metapad" task-->Properties-->Actions. Do you see the following?



In my case, the shortcut will actually Start a program "D:\Testing\metapad.exe"
The command "D:\Testing\metapad.exe" works on Command Prompt.

I just found my error & I apologize for wasting everyone's time. I have a program called SendToToys. It has an option to send a file to the clipboard as a name. That's what I used for the path, each time I used your utility. I just noticed that it adds an extra space after the path. That's why I kept getting error messages. When I removed that space, everything worked fine!

Again, I apologize to you & to @Brink.

No need to apologize @phrab.

I'm glad you found the culprit, and posted back to let us know so it may help others with the same issue.