Opening Apps from the Directory You're in as Administrator

The other day, I saw a post that Greg Duncan shared about opening CMD and PowerShell from the directory you're in.

How did I not know this? Open CMD/PS to the directory you're in, from File Explorer (no right-click needed) https://t.co/ynPFCGw9xm pic.twitter.com/hL2iFGVHsE

— Greg Duncan (@gduncan411) December 7, 2016

Now although there is no rocket science behind this, I never thought of ever trying it, now that I have tried it, I can't use it.

The Problem is…

You see the problem is every time I need a CMD or PowerShell window, it generally needs to be running in admin mode (anyone who knows how, let me know ).

The Resolution is…

Now being a week since seeing the post, I really feel that I should be using this gem, so I decided to write code to make it possible for me. I won't go into too much detail because the code is on GitHub (http://go.beeming.net/2hocTo8). Basically, all you do is:

1. Copy the admin.exe from the compiled folder on GitHub (or pull down the code and compile yourself) into your windows folder, which is location in C:\Windows by default.
2. Click in the address bar in Windows explorer.

   

3. Type any command:

   

4. Press enter and see it launch that app as Administrator with the working directory set correctly:

   

Hope this little utility will fill this little gap I had for others as well.