A lightweight Linux-sudo-like Windows PowerShell 5.1 script getting elevated privileges for one command each time in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
Unavailable for Command Prompt.
Change execution policy to allow Windows PowerShell script, then copy the content of Invoke-ElevatedCommand.ps1 to your Windows PowerShell profile.
Open a new Windows PowerShell session, add sudo before commands requiring elevation, or execute sudo -h to view usage and help information.
Sudo has been tested only on Chinese locale systems. If text appears garbled, try resaving your PowerShell profile with UTF8-BOM encoding.
Mini-WinPs-Sudo will override Sudo-for-Windows in Windows PowerShell due to the same command name, but has no influence on Sudo-for-Windows in Command Prompt since it does NOT work in Command Prompt.
Therefore, you can use Sudo-for-Windows in Command Prompt as usual and use Mini-WinPs-Sudo in Windows PowerShell at the same time.
V0.0.1 Upload the first functional test prototype that has been discarded.
V0.0.2 Refactor code and complete the functional framework. Remove redundant CMD-related code, improve code modularity, add four new parameters including help -h, version -v, list -l and keep new window -k, modify the default behavior when no command is provided, and introduce colored ASCII art output with optimized rendering speed.
V0.0.3 Enhance security, reduce conditional judgment overhead and add the -c parameter to manually clean up temporary files.
V0.0.4 Introduce experimental Chinese and English bilingual dispaly feature for certain help information. There are currently no plans to add support for locale formats with special characters in their system paths such as Japanese and Korean.
V0.0.5 Use a centralized hash table to store and initialize state and data cache, reduce conditional judgment overhead; add bilingual support for three specific messages; remove the unused array. In previous versions, when a non-administrator user executed sudo alone, the script would attempt to elevate a new Windows Terminal; otherwise, it would fall back to powershell.exe. In this version, if the user cancels the operation, the script will no longer attempt to fall back but will exit directly, avoiding unnecessary UAC prompts.
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Mini-WinPs-Sudo project is licensed under the MIT License.
Certain components and workflows of this project have been or will be assisted by large language models and agents, including but not limited to Gemini 2.5 Flash, GitHub Copilot, Deepseek Reasoner, and Doubao Seed Thinking.