Cannot drag and drop into ELEVATED Terminal to get the path of a file

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Environment

Windows build number: Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18363.959]
Windows Terminal version (if applicable):  1.1.2233.0 and preview  1.1.2233.0

Any other software?

Steps to reproduce

I drag a file from Windows Explorer onto Terminal window and it does nothing. In CMD or Powershell windows it gives me a path to file.

Expected behavior

I expect to get a path to the file. I looked around and see that this is what should be happening, but it is not for me.

Actual behavior

See the GIF below:

[zadjii-msft]

Huh, good find! As it turns out, drag/dropping onto an elevated window isn't supported at all. This is a platform security feature. You can notice the same behavior by trying to drag/drop a file onto an elevated conhost.exe (the vintage console). I'd also expect that there's no way for us to get around that, because the drag/drop service runs unelevated, so I don't think it's possible for it to be able to send messages to elevated windows at all.

Thanks for the investigation!

[su-hy]

Interesting. I tried it on another account and indeed, it works fine when I open Terminal in a regular way, and it does not work if I "Open as Administrator".
The problem I had was that the first account I used opened Terminal as Administrator by default. Both those accounts are domain admins, but I guess there must be some difference between them.
Thanks.

Also, as you can see on my original GIF, it worked fine in CMD.exe and Powershell prompt. A bit confusing.

[dpmaycry]

Windows 10 2004 19041.572
Windows Terminal v1.3.2651.0
I am administrator and while my powershell and cmd works fine with drag file path, windows terminal still got the same problem.