Randall Kennedy has learned from running Linux that UAC is probably a Good Thing: Enterprise Desktop | InfoWorld | Learning to Live with UAC | July 11, 2007 08:43 AM | By Randall Kennedy. I came to similar conclusions in March. At the time, I bewailed the lack of a Windows Vista equivalent to su or sudo. Randall mentions a solution to this in his antepenultimate paragraph: Michael Murgolo's Script Elevation I came to similar conclusions in March. At the time, I bewailed the lack of a Windows Vista equivalent to su or sudo.Randall mentions a solution to this in his antepenultimate paragraph: Michael Murgolo’s Script Elevation Power Toy, from Technet Magazine’s code archive. The article explaining the Script Elevation Power Toys is here.There are a bunch of PowerToys there, not just one. You not only get the elevate command, you get right-click menu items to run various script types as Administrator, and right-click menu items to open normal and Administrator CMD and PowerShell prompts at folders from Explorer. The only issue I have with Murgolo’s tools is the installation. In an effort to provide granularity, Murgolo made it so that you have to do 9 separate right-click/Install/approve actions to install all the PowerToys. A traditional MSI package that installed all 9 tools would be a welcome addition. It isn’t an either/or choice, after all. Software Development