@echo off

title Disable DNS Cache Service

:: Check if we are an administrator. If not, exit immediately.

:: BatchGotAdmin

:: Check for permissions

if "%PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%" equ "amd64" (

>nul 2>&1 "%SYSTEMROOT%\SysWOW64\cacls.exe" "%SYSTEMROOT%\SysWOW64\config\system"

) else (

>nul 2>&1 "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\cacls.exe" "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\config\system"

)

:: If the error flag set, we do not have admin rights.

if %ERRORLEVEL% neq 0 (

echo Requesting administrative privileges...

goto UACPrompt

) else (

goto gotAdmin

)

:UACPrompt

echo Set UAC = CreateObject^("Shell.Application"^) > "%TEMP%\getadmin.vbs"

set params= %*

echo UAC.ShellExecute "cmd.exe", "/c ""%~s0"" %params:"=""%", "", "runas", 1 >> "%TEMP%\getadmin.vbs"

wscript.exe "%TEMP%\getadmin.vbs"

del "%TEMP%\getadmin.vbs"

exit /b

:gotAdmin

:SCset

:: VALUE

:: 2 (Automatic) (DEFAULT)

:: 4 (Disabled) (to prevent network freeze after applying a huge hosts file)

::

:: See https://superuser.com/a/1277960

::

reg add "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Dnscache" /v Start /t REG_DWORD /d 4 /f

echo Reboot your system now!

echo.

pause