This program elevates program privilege under a UAC enabled Windows environment, just like sudo in Linux.

• If you have Ruby installed

  gem install uac

  This version runs fast. Because it doesn't have Ruby runtime embedded.

• If you don't have Ruby installed

  Download from https://github.com/winteryoung/uac/releases

• View netstat and then pause after execution.

  uac netstat -anb

• Executing multiple commands (including shell directives) and pause after execution.

  uac "cd /d d:\ && dir"

  Because Windows shell intercepts the special operators like &, &&, >, |. It's necessary to quote the entire command. Otherwise uac won't see the && dir part.

• Starting a service or windows application with admin privilege, but do not open a terminal.

  uacs putty yoursite.com

  It's equivalent to

  uac --no-terminal -- putty yoursite.com

  uacs is the shorthand for

  uac --no-terminal -- <COMMAND>

  --no-terminal option here is to not start a terminal window when executing the given command. -- is used to separate the options passed to uac and the commands to be executed.

• Starting a terminal with admin privilege.

  uacs cmd

uac -h

Note, by the nature of Windows design, a process cannot be elevated directly, only a new process can be granted the admin privilege. So uac opens a new window or starts a new process every time you call.