How to run command prompt as admin?

[avada]

Hi!
I often need to run an elevated command promt for some command line programs.
Within TC I can only do that conveniently with a button bar button. Can't use cm_ExecuteDOS because then the run as admin option does not appear in the context menu. So I'm left with the "cmd" command. The problem is that when I run as admin the working directry changes to C:\Windows\system32\ unlike when I run it normally, in which case the working directory will be the current directory in TC. Needing to navigate from system32 to wherever I have the executable adds a lot of tediousness.
I tried everything I could think of in the parameter and working folder fileds of the button, but nothing worked. How can I start the command prompt with admin privileges and keeping the current directory as the working directory?

[MVV]

Make a button or a user-command:

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Command: %COMMANDER_PATH%\Sudo.exe
Parameters: cmd.exe /k cd /d %P

You may find Sudo in my signature.

[HolgerK]

Or this button:

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TOTALCMD#BAR#DATA
*%COMSPEC%  /k
cd /d %P
%COMSPEC%
Elevated Command Prompt


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Regards
Holger

[avada]

Thanks for the replies

Make a button or a user-command:

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Command: %COMMANDER_PATH%\Sudo.exe
Parameters: cmd.exe /k cd /d %P

You may find Sudo in my signature.

Thanks. It works quite well without sudo too, with the context menu run as admin option.
One question: What the /d %P do? (The help say it disables somekind of autoron) And how come the path is not after cd?

Or this button:

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TOTALCMD#BAR#DATA
*%COMSPEC%  /k
cd /d %P
%COMSPEC%
Elevated Command Prompt


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Regards
Holger

I'm not sure how would I do this? Where would I add all these lines?

[nsp]

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TOTALCMD#BAR#DATA
*%COMSPEC%  /k
cd /d %P
%COMSPEC%
Elevated Command Prompt


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I'm not sure how would I do this? Where would I add all these lines?

Select the code in the code part, copy it in the cipboard, right click in TC toolbar and click paste !

for your info, * in front of command replace sudo

[HolgerK]

- mark the text inside oft the code block, Copy to clipboard
- Context menu oft the button bar -> "Paste"

the * (>=TC7.56) in front of the %comspec% does a very similar job like sudo.exe: The button will always start the program elevated, no need for context menu.

What the /d %P do?

Use the /D switch to change current drive in addition to changing current directory for a drive.

Regards
Holger

[karlchen]

Hello, avada.

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Command: %COMMANDER_PATH%\Sudo.exe
Parameters: cmd.exe /k cd /d %P

[...]
One question: What the /d %P do? (The help say it disables somekind of autoron) And how come the path is not after cd?

As you use the commandline

cmd.exe /k cd /d %P

inside the parameter field of a Total Commander button the commandline works like this:

• T.C. replaces %P by the current source panel foldername. - So there is a path behind the cd command!
• cmd.exe /k opens a command prompt window which will close once you type exit or click the X in upper right hand corner of the window.
  cd /d %P tells cmd.exe to change to the folder given in the variable %P.
  As explained above, T.C. will already have replaced %P by the full pathname before launching cmd.exe.
  /d makes sure that the cd command changes to the appropriate drive if neccessary.

Kind regards,
Karl

[avada]

Thanks for the info.

[Balderstrom]

Interesting, though I don't think you need the "cd /d %P" parameter.

This works just as well:

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TOTALCMD#BAR#DATA
*%COMSPEC%  /k

%COMSPEC%
Elevated Command Prompt


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Although, perhaps it's needed for Win7?

[MVV]

Balderstrom, stupid Windows sets current directory to C:\Windows\System32 when you start elevated application or batch file (it's a real pain when you need to do something in current directory).

[gewone]

Thanks for this guys, found my way here through Google!

However, this still (almost a decade later) seems to be an issue:

Balderstrom, stupid Windows sets current directory to C:\Windows\System32 when you start elevated application or batch file (it's a real pain when you need to do something in current directory).

I was thinking, has there been any improvement so that there's by any chance perhaps a smoother way nowadays?

Cheers!

[petermad]

I use this command to start in curren directory

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[em_cmdelevated]
cmd=*%COMSPEC% /C
param=Start /D"%P"
menu=Command Prompt as Administrator
button=cmd.exe

In contrary to previous suggestions I add quotation marks around %P - because TC does not set them automatically unless %P is used together with %n or %S

[avada]

Thanks for this guys, found my way here through Google!

However, this still (almost a decade later) seems to be an issue:

Balderstrom, stupid Windows sets current directory to C:\Windows\System32 when you start elevated application or batch file (it's a real pain when you need to do something in current directory).

I was thinking, has there been any improvement so that there's by any chance perhaps a smoother way nowadays?

Cheers!

The solution was given way back then, on TC's side of course.
Mine's like this:

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TOTALCMD#BAR#DATA
*%COMSPEC% /u /k
cd /d %P


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I use it regularly.

[gewone]

Thanks @avada, amazing!
Exactly what I wanted!

[avada]

Or this button:

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TOTALCMD#BAR#DATA
*%COMSPEC%  /k
cd /d %P
%COMSPEC%
Elevated Command Prompt


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Regards
Holger

I'm wondering how to do this for powershell.