Is there a faster way to open a process as Administrator (With UAC enabled)?

By holding CTRL + SHIFT whilst pressing Enter, it opens as an administrator.

Seems you can also hold CTRL + SHIFT + Left Click a CMD window on the taskbar (probably other applications too) to open a new one as an administrator also.

Confirmed working in Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10.

For Windows 8.1 and 10 English, to open an Adminstrator command prompt using the keyboard use

Windows Key + X followed by A

For other languages, the appropriate key to use will be indicated by an underline in the pop-out menu.

Ctrl+Shift+Enter is convenient, but if you prefer Linux-like environment, you can save this script as sudo.cmd somewhere in your PATH:

@echo Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application") > %temp%\sudo.tmp.vbs
@echo args = Right("%*", (Len("%*") - Len("%1"))) >> %temp%\sudo.tmp.vbs
@echo objShell.ShellExecute "%1", args, "", "runas" >> %temp%\sudo.tmp.vbs
@cscript %temp%\sudo.tmp.vbs

Then you can use this command:

sudo cmd

Original Source