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The AT command is perfect! Your Google-fu is superior to my Google-fu. AT doesn't work on Windows 8, but I've found a better solution. I've posted it as an answer on another question, here: stackoverflow. From comment "I like Rushyo's sugesstion of using AT Commad AT is deprecated in windows Use command 'net session', see posts bellows.
Show 6 more comments. However, this will not work on some non-English language systems. Harry Johnston Harry Johnston Wouldn't take too long and the command fits in your brain. Pacerier: the point of the question is to detect elevation in a batch file. If a person is at the command line, all they need do is look at the window title, which always starts "Administrator:" if you are elevated. HarryJohnston, Wow didn't realize that.
Does the "Administrator" title appear for all versions of windows? Pacerier: all current versions Vista onwards. Show 4 more comments. This is the up to date version and it hides the irrelevant output from net. Works well on Windows Martin Binder Martin Binder 1, 6 6 silver badges 4 4 bronze badges. See stackoverflow.
Hugh Hugh 1, 1 1 gold badge 12 12 silver badges 23 23 bronze badges. GeoffH GeoffH 1 1 silver badge 4 4 bronze badges. Thank you for this! The other "whoami" solution's didn't work for me on Windows 8. This one did. I know I'm really late to this party, but here's my one liner to determine admin-hood. It also sets the value of the variable "admin" to equal yes or no accordingly. This will only work if the user is a direct member of the Administrators local group.
If the user is a member of a domain group e. Wolfgang Wolfgang 11 2 2 bronze badges. There are two caveats about this method though: Disabling UAC will likely break it through the simple fact that everything would be run as admin anyway. Torin Darkflight Torin Darkflight 1. Click Start menu, type cmd , right-click the Command Prompt application and choose Run as Administrator. When the User Account Control window appears, click Yes to launch the elevated cmd.
To quickly access the elevated Command Prompt screen in Windows 10, you can create a desktop shortcut for it. Then you can double-click the created Command Prompt shortcut to open it with administrator rights next time. If your computer is running on Windows 7, you can click Start menu and find Command Prompt under Accessories , right-click it and select Run as administrator.
Windows 10 repair, recovery, reboot, reinstall, restore solutions. Facebook Twitter Linkedin Reddit Summary : When you try to perform some tasks with Command Prompt, it requires you to open an elevated Command Prompt which has administrator level privileges.
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