Adds a clever check for administrative privleges.

[ilag11111]

Source: Ben Hooper. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4051883/batch-script-how-to-check-for-admin-rights

This has not been tested on Windows 10. I can confirm it works on Windows 8, and the original poster confirms it works on Windows 7.

[pke]

Or getting the permission in the batch file itself like this:

:: BatchGotAdmin
:-------------------------------------
REM  --> Check for permissions
>nul 2>&1 "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\cacls.exe" "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\config\system"

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"
:--------------------------------------

Works on every Windows with UAC

[pke]

Just curious, the reason for close?