User:Jestermeister/Seed/elevate

Windows Vista introduced a new security feature: User Account Control (UAC). On one look, it seems to mimic the elevation feature that Linux has. However, Vista does not provide a command-line equivalent tool to UAC. The best that one can do is to do a "run as administrator" on command prompt and start running everything from there.

Elevate is a bunch of scripts created to address this issue. With it, running applications/scripts with elevated rights are now much easier. One can do it even from "Run..." in the START menu.

If you copy and paste all the files into the Windows/System32 folder, you will be able to execute elevate from anywhere. An example of its usage will be:

elevate cmd

This command launches the command prompt in elevated privileges.