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This isn't admin, but it gives you some rights, such as opening the device manager to try to update some drivers. I haven't fully explored the possibilities.

You can start the Computer Management (compmgmt) as administrator the usual way. In there you have a node to open the device manager as pane inside the computer management window.

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Found a satisfying solution. Just start up Device Manager normally (without admin rights), and then press "Change Settings" -button in the General tab:

you can open devmgmt.msc from cmd with admin rights or you can open task manager>file tab > new task > check the "run with administrative previllages" option and open devmgmt.msc

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My company has made our Win10 users to be "standard users" (without admin rights). However, there is a possibility to run a program using admin rights with some "auto elevation" (Avecto Defendpoint?) system. What I would normally do is "right click" -> "Run as administrator", but that option is not available with Device Manager. I am able to run Powershell as admin, for example (with Right click -> Run as Administrator).

Press Win to open the "Start menu", type devmgmt.msc into the search box ("Type here to search"), press Right arrow followed by Down arrow to highlight "Run as administrator", press Enter to execute.

You can also launch MMC as admin, then add device manager to MMC as a snap-in. Additionally you can save that console as an msc file and then re-access device manager as admin anytime you open that saved console file.