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When I'm currently in a command line window and I change an environmental variable I have to reopen a cmd.exe instance. When I want to install a python package using pip from the command line I have to run it in administrator mode as well.

I was wondering if there is a command / shortcut to reopen a cmd.exe instance in administrator mode.

I know I can use start cmd.exe to open a new command line instance and I've seen that apparently you can use runas to run a service from the command line in administrator mode, but this prompted me for my administrator password which does not correspond to my user password apparently.

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    If the user you are logged into, is not an Administrator, you will have to input an elevated user's permissions in order to do what you want.
    – Ramhound
    Commented Aug 7, 2018 at 14:22

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If you already started cmd as administrator then you can simply create another (child) copy of administrative console that will inherit parent's environment without providing admin's password by simply running:

start

so in your case set environment variables you need in parent administrative console, then run start

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