Elevate to administrator permission

open-as-administrator.bat

REM Test if Admin
CALL NET SESSION >nul 2>&1
IF NOT %ERRORLEVEL% == 0 (

  rem Start batch again with UAC
        echo Set UAC = CreateObject^("Shell.Application"^) > "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
        echo UAC.ShellExecute "%~s0", "", "", "runas", 1 >> "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
        "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
        del "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
        exit /B

    rem Program will now start again automatically with admin rights!
    rem pause
    goto :eof
)

echo Started with Admin privilliges...

REM Here you can enter your custom code
REM In this example, `hosts` file is started with admin rights

CD C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc

notepad hosts