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Start Virtual Machine on Boot (Also shows how to run a .ps1 when elevated permissions are necessary)
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| PowerShell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Command "& {Start-Process PowerShell -ArgumentList '-NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -File ""C:\Users\Lou\Desktop\startVM.ps1""' -Verb RunAs}"; |
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...basically you're using Powershell to run Powershell. The second instance is elevated to Admin and is running your script with those permissions.
Full explanation:
Start-Process can be used to run a program, and also has the parameter -Verb RunAs which elevates the program to run as Admin.
We can't call Start-Process from a batch file as it's a PowerShell command.
But we can run powershell from a batch file, then using the -command parameter to run Start-Process.
We use Start-Process to run powershell (again) and run your script when it is elevated to Admin: -ArgumentList '-File C:\folder\psfile.ps1' -Verb RunAs