terminal: Can't run Windows Terminal without Administrator

Windows Terminal version

1.13.11431.0

Windows build number

10.0.19041.572

Yes, this has actually downgraded since my last bug report. Blame the fact that I had limited download options.

Other Software

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Steps to reproduce

See https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/13099#issuecomment-1138459416 and the comments leading up to it.

I was given a command that completely ruined every app on my system.
I had to do an in-place upgrade to fix the issue.
Windows Terminal, through any amount of reinstalls, now cannot run without Administrator.

Expected Behavior

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Actual Behavior

Windows Terminal, through any amount of reinstalls, now cannot run without Administrator. I also cannot double-click the msixbundle to install (I get some permission error), but Add-AppxPackage works.

The wt command is not found in a non-Administrator Command Prompt, but it is found in an Administrator Command Prompt.

No Start Menu entries work for any part of Windows Terminal, not even the shortcuts, unless run as Administrator.

About this issue

Original URL
State: open
Created 2 years ago
Reactions: 2
Comments: 26 (10 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

Make sure in settings.json, profile settings don’t have elevate: true setting.

Trugamr on Jun 25, 2022

open the UAC.
click the level. No matter which level you are using, and you don’t need to change it, just click it.
Click OK. You should getting “restart the computer”.
Reboot the computer. It should work.

lonnywong on Jun 10, 2022

We need a better way of reporting these issues to the appx team - We simply don’t have the debugging knowhow to investigate these properly.

zadjii-msft on Jun 23, 2022