I know it's possible to run CMD as admin. But if CMD is already open, is it possible to "run as admin"? Something like su or sudo in Linux?

But if CMD is already open, is it possible to "run as admin"? Based on my knowledge, there is no ways to run CMD as admin other than those mentioned in these two links: http://www.lytebyte.com/2008/10/22/how-to-run-as-administrator-in-vista-command-line/ http://www.vistaclues.com/always-run-a-command-prompt-as-administrator/ For more information, please post your problem in this forum "The Official Scripting Guys Forum!": http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ITCG/threads This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees , and confers no rights.

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Thanks for the answers. For the "runas" command, I see that it changes the current directory. So, that's not really what I expected. But I think I've found an alternative solution in the following page, first .reg file: http://www.blogsdna.com/2226/windows-7-add-elevated-command-prompt-option-in-right-click-context-menu.htm

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