What is the quickest way to get elevated rights in powershell?

Question

It happens again and again that I am in a Powershell session and want to execute a command for which I need admin (elevated) rights.

My current workflow then:

1. pwd (ctrl+c)
2. open a new Powershell (run as administrator)
3. cd ctrl+v

This is very annoying and time-consuming, how can I optimise this?

Does this answer your question? [How to create a Run As Administrator shortcut using Powershell](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28997799/how-to-create-a-run-as-administrator-shortcut-using-powershell) — JosefZ, Sep 03 '20 at 14:03

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 03 '20 at 10:09

I guess the standard way of creating a shortcut should do it:

In a command box type where wt.exe to get the file path.
This will most probably return C:\Users\<yourname>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\wt.exe
Open the path and right-click wt.exe (eventhough in there it shows 0 kb)
Select 'Create Shortcut'
Right-click the new shortcut and in the General tab change the name to Windows Terminal (Admin)
In the Shortcut tab, click the Advanced button and check the box "Run as administrator"
click OK
Drag the shortcut to your desktop

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 17 '21 at 02:22

Theo's answer didn't work for me, but this one did. Copied:

Right click -> New -> Shortcut Type in C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c start /b %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\wt.exe for the location
Give whatever name you want to give, finish.
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Right click on the newly created shortcut -> Properties -> Advanced -> Run as administrator

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