At 04:10 PM 23/09/2014, Joshua MacCraw wrote:
So you mean literally GUI explorer.exe opens or do you mean a text DOS box?
So you type "CMD", into Start>Search, does that return
Programs(1)->D.exe under ? Does right clicking the result & choosing
Run as Administrator work?
Here's what happens:
I type cmd - CMD shows up at the top of the MRU list on the Start
Menu. I can right click that and run as Administrator and it works fine.
If I type cmd and press enter, I get a regular command prompt (non-elevated).
If I type cmd and press ctrl-shift-enter, I get a Windows Explorer
window (the GUI) showing me c:\windows\system32. - I should get an
elevated command prompt.
If I type command and press ctrl-shift-enter I get and elevated command prompt.
I've seen this on both Vista and 7 machines, and I've tried playing
with UAC, and running sfc /scannow. No change.
I posted it on the MS Windows 7 help forums, but the best answer the
"MVPs" there could come up with was to create a shortcut to open CMD
as elevated, which isn't a fix.
Anyway, very odd. From the user's point of view, it doesn't matter,
because they never do this anyway, but I hate little twitchy things
in Windows because it makes me think something bigger is lurking.
T
