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Sebastian
Sebastian

Reputation: 149

Using %userprofile% to navigate to current user when running CMD as admin

I have a .bat that needs to run as admin although this creates problems with parts of the .bat when %userprofile% is used it will navigate to system32 rather than the userprofile that the .bat is run on.

I don't have any need to navigate to system32 with the .bat so if there was a way to correct this from the start of the .bat so following commands could be run as the currently logged in user.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1834

Answers (2)

jwdonahue
jwdonahue

Reputation: 6669

You have two choices:

cd /d "%userprofile%"

or

pushd "%userprofile%"

Upvotes: 1

Sebastian
Sebastian

Reputation: 149

I found the issue seems to be how the .bat is being used (through LogMeIn) for some reason it was going to system32 even using the pushd /d "%userprofile%" command I found a workaround that works with logmein is the following

pushd "%~dp0"
cd..
cd..
cd..
cd..

Upvotes: 0

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