Running a command as Administrator using PowerShell?

Question

You know how if you\'re the administrative user of a system and you can just right click say, a batch script and run it as Administrator without entering the administrator p

Answer 1

The most reliable way I've found is to wrap it in a self-elevating .bat file:

@echo off
NET SESSION 1>NUL 2>NUL
IF %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 0 GOTO ADMINTASKS
CD %~dp0
MSHTA "javascript: var shell = new ActiveXObject('shell.application'); shell.ShellExecute('%~nx0', '', '', 'runas', 0); close();"
EXIT

:ADMINTASKS

powershell -file "c:\users\joecoder\scripts\admin_tasks.ps1"

EXIT

The .bat checks if you're already admin and relaunches the script as Administrator if needed. It also prevents extraneous "cmd" windows from opening with the 4th parameter of ShellExecute() set to 0.