Elevate cmd to admin with command prompt?

Question

Is there anyway to enable administrator access instead of having to right click command prompt and run as administrator?

I tried runas /user:administrator CMD (prompts for password) net user administrator /active:yes (System error 5 has occurred. Access is denied.) runas /user:administrator luaexec.exe -w -f cmd.exe /k

This is on my local machine running windows 8 and have no passwords on any accounts

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 30 '14 at 16:56

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You can't change the permission from a current CMD.exe. You have to restart it. This is a Windows limitation. I use NirCmd with the elevate switch to start tools elevated.

answered Mar 30 '14 at 16:56

magicandre1981

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 30 '14 at 14:52

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It is not built in to Windows, but you could use the psexec command from PsTools:

psexec -h cmd

answered Mar 30 '14 at 14:52

PlasmaPower

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 30 '14 at 15:51

Try the following.

Locate the command prompt (cmd.exe).
Right click on the file, go to Send To - Desktop (create shortcut).
Right click on the file again and go to Properties.
The target field put:

C:\Windows\System32\runas.exe /noprofile /user:Administrator cmd
Open the shortcut, the following screen will be presented to you.

Elevate cmd to admin with command prompt?

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