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The inability to launch an elevated process with an easy key shortcut in the "Run" <Win>+<R> dialog has been breaking me of that muscle memory over last few years. The <CTRL>+<SHIFT>+<ENTER> sequence to elevate a new process works from the "Search" text-box in the Start Menu, but not the "Run" dialog.

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You can try this little utility: http://code.kliu.org/misc/elevate/

It's very handy.

That's pretty cool. I've been using "su" [1] myself which is different, I think. From the website:

    "it will attempt to restart cmd.exe with administrator privileges, in the current directory, much like if you had started cmd.exe with rightclick "Run as Administrator"

1: http://p-nand-q.com/download/supershell.html

haven't used that "su", but elevate will use the built in mechanism for privilege elevation, if you make UAC prompts silent it will simply work without bothering you.

You just made my life so much better. Right click->Run as Administrator was pretty cumbersome.

That <CTRL>+<SHIFT> works on left-clicks on taskbar icons and double-clicks on other icons, too.

It also works with middle-clicks on taskbar icons to launch a new instance as admin.

You might be interested to learn that for shortcuts, Rightclick->Properties->Shortcut Tab->Advanced has an option to "Run as administrator".

Yeah, I knew that but usually, I'm fine unelevated.

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