Elevating the Powershell Command Line May 27, 2017 From Powershell Start a new Powershell process as an Administrator from an existing Powershell command: Start-Process powershell -Verb runAs Or with arguments: Start-Process powershell -Verb runAs -ArgumentList <Arguments> From the command line Run the following from a non-powershell command line: powershell -Command "Start-Process PowerShell –Verb RunAs" Sources StackOveflow - How to run open powershell as administrator from the run window StackOverFlow - Powershell running a command as administrator