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Launches command prompt as Administrator
:: BatchGotAdmin
:-------------------------------------
REM Check for permissions
IF '%PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%' EQU 'amd64' (
>nul 2>&1 "%SYSTEMROOT%\SysWOW64\icacls.exe" "%SYSTEMROOT%\SysWOW64\config"
) ELSE (
>nul 2>&1 "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\icacls.exe" "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\config"
)
REM If error flag set, we do not have admin.
if '%errorlevel%' NEQ '0' (
echo Requesting administrative privileges...
goto UACPrompt
) else ( goto gotAdmin )
:UACPrompt
echo Set UAC = CreateObject^("Shell.Application"^) > "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
set params = %*:"=""
echo UAC.ShellExecute "cmd.exe", "/c ""%~s0"" %params%", "", "runas", 1 >> "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
"%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
del "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
exit /B
:gotAdmin
pushd "%CD%"
CD /D "%~dp0"
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