Create Elevated Shortcut without UAC prompt in Windows 10  

Brink said:

I'm glad it could help, but Matthew Wai wrote the BAT to help.

Thanks @Matthew Wai

By the way, is there a way to cd /d to current directory after running cmd.exe?

Thank you

You may manually copy the shortcut from the desktop into the current directory.
Or do you mean the application is in the current directory?

Matthew Wai said:

You may manually copy the shortcut from the desktop into the current directory.
Or do you mean the application is in the current directory?

Sorry, the context is I am using this bat script to run cmd as admin, and paring the output shortcut to this context menu .reg hack.

While it works and it opens cmd, it does not change to current directory. It just points to path (i.e., system32).

I have to

Code:

cd /d foo/bar

each time to change the directory. I was just wondering if there is anything else I can do to have it point to the current directory as it runs the cmd shortcut or something...

Thanks,
Welp

Edit: added context, and I guess this is was I was trying to get at

Paul Black said:

Hello @whalp,




Have a look at this . . .

> How to Add "Open command window here as administrator" context menu in Windows 10

I hope this helps.

Wow, you are fast. Yea, I just saw that! Thanks for pointing me there.

Though, I wonder if you can still use this batch method to achieve the same thing. I see that the task does

Code:

/c start "OpenCmdHereAsAdminNoUAC" "%windir%\System32\cmd.exe"

. Is it possible to change directory to the current directory?
Something like:

Code:

start "OpenCmdHereAsAdminNoUAC" "%windir%\System32\cmd.exe" /k cd /d "%currentDirectory%"

Thanks

This is BRILLIANT as worked but it a shame as i had to choose OPTION TWO doing all that work, i would Preferred OPTION ONE but it don't give us a name of our choice which is a show so hope there be a new version to give us a name we want [Like this in OPTION TWO, number 4]

The task name will be the same as the application's name you enter. The same name is used so as to simplify the procedure.

To Matthew

i got it i see what you mean, my mistake, that great new as do not need to be "Elevated Command Prompt" but can in any name

Thank

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Last one, About the Task Scheduler "Elevated Command Prompt": Is there a way to backup the "App" FOLDER and not the multiple files in the "App" Folder

Start Menu said:

Is there a way to backup the "App" FOLDER

I find it pointless to back up this folder: 👉 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\Tasks\Apps\

This doesn't work from Windows 10 22H2 onwards. It worked in 21H2. Microsoft blocked this workaround.

All that happens when the shortcut runs, is that the program doesn't manage to get enough RAM to fully open, so it remains in some sort of limbo state where it doesn't show any graphical windows on the screen and you can only close it by right clicking its icon on the system tray to exit it.