PowerShell script to restart a service

Question

My mission is to press a keyboard sequence, such as Ctrl +Shift +R, to restart a Windows Service.

I have a script which works fine in the PowerShell ISE, when launched with administrative privileges.

When I try with a PowerShell script it fails due to insufficient Administrative Privileges. It’s galling that I can get it to work with an old-fashioned bat file, but not PowerShell.

The root of the problem is that shortcuts to a PowerShell script have their Administrative privileges box greyed out. So far no work-around has overcome this privilege problem.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You suggest you don't like solving this problem with a batch file (e.g. net start), I think because batch files are inherently more limited than powershell scripts. What you can do is wrap your Ps script in a batch file, though, for the sake of accomplishing your stated objective -- running a powershell script with a keyboard shortcut without access permissions issues. Try this in a batch file:

 powershell set-executionpolicy remotesigned
 powershell myscript.ps1

Answer 2

One approach is to start another elevated PowerShell session within your script like so:

Start-Process PowerShell.exe -arg '-nologo -noprofile script.ps1' -verb runas

That should prompt to elevate the new PowerShell session. I think you should be able to set the -WindowStyle parameter such that the new window doens't appear (if you need that behavior). Note that you will need to specify the full path to your existing script.