Run Script As Admin

Feb 22, 2016
1 min read
May 31, 2023 18:15 EEST

To run a script on newer windows version with UAC enabled you can use the following wrapper:

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:: Automatically check & get admin rights
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@echo off
CLS
ECHO.
ECHO =============================
ECHO Running Admin shell
ECHO =============================

:checkPrivileges
NET FILE 1>NUL 2>NUL
if '%errorlevel%' == '0' ( goto gotPrivileges ) else ( goto getPrivileges )

:getPrivileges
if '%1'=='ELEV' (echo ELEV & shift /1 & goto gotPrivileges)
ECHO.
ECHO **************************************
ECHO Invoking UAC for Privilege Escalation
ECHO **************************************

setlocal DisableDelayedExpansion
set "batchPath=%~0"
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
ECHO Set UAC = CreateObject^("Shell.Application"^) > "%temp%\OEgetPrivileges.vbs"
ECHO args = "ELEV " >> "%temp%\OEgetPrivileges.vbs"
ECHO For Each strArg in WScript.Arguments >> "%temp%\OEgetPrivileges.vbs"
ECHO args = args ^& strArg ^& " "  >> "%temp%\OEgetPrivileges.vbs"
ECHO Next >> "%temp%\OEgetPrivileges.vbs"
ECHO UAC.ShellExecute "!batchPath!", args, "", "runas", 1 >> "%temp%\OEgetPrivileges.vbs"
"%SystemRoot%\System32\WScript.exe" "%temp%\OEgetPrivileges.vbs" %*
exit /B

:gotPrivileges
if '%1'=='ELEV' shift /1
setlocal & pushd .
cd /d %~dp0

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::START
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REM Run shell as admin (example) - put here code as you like
ECHO Arguments: %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c ""C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\sh.exe" --login -i /d/tools/restarttomcat.sh"

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