On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 9:32 AM Brian Inglis via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: > > On 2025-04-11 10:21, Mark Liam Brown via Cygwin wrote: > > Greetings! > > > > How can I modify a Cygwin bash script so it runs in elevated > > Administrator mode when someone double-clicks it in Windows Explorer? > > Use a Run as admin shortcut?
That's how I do it, but you have to trick Windows as it won't let you set "Run as admin" on a shortcut pointing to s shell script: Use this as your shortcut target: C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c C:\path\yourScript.sh -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
