This is equivalent to choosing "Run as Administrator" by right-clicking a batch file. In either case, the UAC prompt would still show up.
Copy and Paste this snippet into the top of the batch file to automatically prompt for admin rights if it does not already have them.
:: BatchGotAdmin
:-------------------------------------
REM --> Check for permissions
IF '%PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%' EQU 'amd64' (
>nul 2>&1 "%SYSTEMROOT%SysWOW64icacls.exe" "%SYSTEMROOT%SysWOW64config"
) ELSE (
>nul 2>&1 "%SYSTEMROOT%system32icacls.exe" "%SYSTEMROOT%system32config"
)
REM --> If error flag set, we do not have admin.
if '%errorlevel%' NEQ '0' (
echo Requesting administrative privileges...
goto UACPrompt
) else ( goto gotAdmin )
:UACPrompt
echo Set UAC = CreateObject^("Shell.Application"^) > "%temp%getadmin.vbs"
set params = %*:"=""
echo UAC.ShellExecute "cmd.exe", "/c ""%~s0"" %params%", "", "runas", 1 >> "%temp%getadmin.vbs"
"%temp%getadmin.vbs"
del "%temp%getadmin.vbs"
exit /B
:gotAdmin
pushd "%CD%"
CD /D "%~dp0"
:-------------------------------------- 
