Run a command as Administrator under Windows

August 10th, 2009 by Xerxes Leave a reply »

To run any command under the credentials of a different user, *nix systems have the sudo command. For example:

$> sudo pico /etc/hostname

To run a program under the credentials of a different user under Windows, you can use the runas command.

runas /user:administrator notepad

i use this command to quickly create batch files which i can drop into my c:\windows\system32 folder for immediate path happiness

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