Trying elevated WT does not open

[mwpowellhtx]

Windows Terminal version

1.17.11461.0

Windows build number

10.0.19041.685

Other Software

I've been opening WT elevated for quite some time and it has been working fine up until today. It was working just yesterday. Now it seems it will not open. Prompts me for the elevated, but no window is opening. Actually, it has also been prompting me unknown program when I do, not sure why that is either, may or may not be related. Having scanned some of the tech forums as well, some suggest that, this is the point of WT, that you need Administrator access to run it, so do not need to elevate it, but this is inaccurate. Some processes you still need an elevated CL in order to do anything with them sometimes, especially if you are doing anything process level, which I sometimes do. So force of habit, I just generally open it that way.

Steps to reproduce

Simply this, CTRL+SHIFT click the taskbar, or CTRL+SHIFT+WIN+(pos) depending on the position.

Expected Behavior

I expect the WT to open elevated with the first configured CL.

Actual Behavior

Apparently, nothing. Ghosted. No window whatsoever is being opened elevated.

[thomas-berg]

I experience the same thing, I added my crash report to this issue: #15526

[carlos-zamora]

Hi @mwpowellhtx. Thanks for filing! We're going to mark this as a /dup of #15526. We'll revisit that one in a bit. Thanks again!

[microsoft-github-policy-service]

Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!

[mwpowellhtx]

Cautiously optimistic, sounds promising. Thanks!