Send to notepad as Admin

As we decided to now enable UAC back on all our computer I was finding it annoying when editing file in UAC protected folder I was searching for a solution and found this old blog post by nickstugr:


Send-to-notepad-as-admin - Posted on December 14, 2012

 

1-      Type “shell:sendto” into an explorer address bar.

2-      Create a new shortcut to notepad in this folder pointing at “%windir%\system32\notepad.exe” (or your editor of choice)

3-      Call this shortcut “Notepad as Admin”

4-      Once created, go into the shortcuts properties, go to the shortcut tab, click advanced… and tick “Run as administrator”

Now when you want to edit a file that your non-elevated user cannot edit, right click the file, choose send to, choose Notepad as Admin and UAC will kick in and elevate for you!