Solved Bat file running as administrator does not work

[gloopinh]

Here is my test bat file:
@echo off
echo\
echo "Hello David"
echo\
pause

If I run this very simple bat file in a user account or admin account, or in an elevated command window, it works fine - I see the text and the pause - no errors. But if I run the bat file as Administrator (mouse right click) or use a shortcut to the bat file that runs as administrator, the window appears and immediately disappears. I do not see the text or the pause. Why? What am I missing?

 

[Brink]

Hello David,

It may be an issue with the registry for "Run as administrator". If you like as a test, use step 2 in the tutorial below to restore "Run as administrator" to the context menu. This will also restore the default registry entries for it, and hopefully allow it to run properly afterwards.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...ator-add-remove-context-menu-windows-7-a.html

 

[MiTuCents]

I found the answer to this very annoying issue in my case was simply that the name of my batch file contained an Ampersand ("&") and Windows 10 (and Windows 7) for some reason do not like having this character in the file name when combined with the "Run as Administrator" option - either from the right-click context menu, or ticked in the icon. Stupid, really, since everywhere else an Ampersand seems to be a valid character for a file name....

Thus the reason that "Pause" didn't work was because it never even opened the file to begin running commands.

 

[Snick]

Excellent troubleshooting MiTuCents

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