Total Commander

Posted: **2012-11-14, 23:45 UTC**

Hi
I very often use the Open Command Prompt from the Command menu and like it from there because I can open it right in the folder I am. However it would be interesting to add the option to open it with admin privileges, may be with a modifyer key (ie. open it while holding shift key).
To do that now I have to open another copy of TC with admin rights but is not very comfortable to do it that way.

Thanks,
Gabriel

Posted: **2012-11-15, 10:28 UTC**

You can create your own command in an button
or e.g. here for usercmd.ini

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[em_evaadm]
cmd=*%comspec% /k

The trick is to use the leading star '*' to elevate the command prompt.

To add this to your menu,
- open the language file (e.g. WCMD_ENG.MNU) (i recommend "Extended English Menus (by petermad)")

- search for

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  MENUITEM "Open comman&d prompt window", cm_ExecuteDOS

or

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  MENUITEM "Open Comman&d Prompt Window...", 511

and add a line:

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  MENUITEM "Open comman&d prompt window (elevated)", em_evaadm

Note that "em_evaadm" recommits to the usercmd.ini.

To make this task complete we can add more of this stuff:

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[em_evaadm_W764_64bitCMD]
cmd=*c:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe
[em_evaadm_W764_32bitCMD]
cmd=*c:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe

  MENUITEM "Open comman&d prompt window... (elevated 32-bit)", em_evaadm_W764_32bitCMD
  MENUITEM "Open comman&d prompt window... (elevated 64-bit)", em_evaadm_W764_64bitCMD

Note: works only as indented with 64-bit TC on 64-bit Win7

Posted: **2012-11-15, 11:50 UTC**

Thank you, that did the trick ! Also followed your recommendation and downloaded the extended menus and are really astounding.

Thanks,
Gabriel

Total Commander

Command prompt with admin rights

Command prompt with admin rights