I am seeing a difference between elevated batch scripts in Windows 7 and Windows 8. If you copy the following in the a batch script and run in either version, you get the current directory. However if you right-click Run As Administrator, you see the current directory in Windows 7 and “C:Windowssystem32” in Windows 8:
@echo off
echo Current path is %cd
%pause
Fortunately there is an easy workaround by changing the current directory to the path of the current script (parameter zero):
@echo off
echo Current path is %cd%
echo Changing directory to the path of the current script
cd %~dp0
echo Current path is %cd%
pause
I’m using this in context of the StackOverflow answer showing how to auto elevate a script:
How can I auto-elevate my batch file, so that it requests from UAC admin rights if required?
I added this info in case anyone else had the same issue: http://stackoverflow.com/a/18037959/221018
Stephen Klancher 