Is it possible to open file/executable elevated with keyb.?

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Hi there,

Is it possible, while inside a lister, to open the selected file / launch the selected executable by pressing a keyboard shortcut? I mean, like in the Windows Start Menu, when you hold CTRL + SHIFT while opening a shortcut, it'll prompt with the UAC dialog and launch as admin.

It would be great if this would be possible in DO, since I found I need to launch elevated files many times and it's quite slow to right click... wait the popup menu to appear... select to Run as Admin.

Thanks,

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You can create your own hotkey to do that using

@admin
{filepath$}

as the command.

If your right-click menus are slow, you can fix that via the steps in the FAQ on right-click menu problems. It'll be a shell extension something has installed which is taking a long time and can probably be disabled.

3

Thanks leo.

I've tried but couldn't set the shortcut to CTRL + SHIFT + ENTER. Instead of using that command, the Command Editor dialog closes (because of the 'Enter' pressed) and doesn't register as shortcut.

4

Press Ctrl + Shift and select Enter from the pulldown menu.

5

That was clever :wink:

Thanks blueroly!