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Run as Administrator - Registry Setting?

PowerShell (and other programs) offer the ability to 'Run as administrator'. Is there a registry where we could alter a setting to make this the default? Thus remove the need to right click and 'Run as Administrator'?

Solution

  • The reader who initially asked the question researched this solution using PowerShell. As you can see it adds a folder called 'runas' under the \Directory\shell.

    new-Item Registry::HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\runas -Force

new-ItemProperty Registry::HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\runas -Name "(default)" -Value "Open Command Prompt as Admin" -Type string -Force

new-ItemProperty Registry::HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\runas -Name "Icon"  -Value "C:\\Windows\\System32\\imageres.dll,-78" -Type string -Force

new-Item Registry::HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\runas\command -Force

new-ItemProperty Registry::HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\runas\command -Name "(default)" -Value 'cmd.exe /k pushd %L' -type string -Force