[BUG] Child processes won't elevate

[DailenG]

Discussed in #487

^{Originally posted by DailenG June 16, 2023}
I'm running System Tray Menu on a user with no admin privileges and using shortcuts that launch chocolatey to install an application. I have SystemTrayMenu running with elevated privileges, I have chocolatey set to always run with admin privileges, but if I launch a shortcut from System Tray Menu it launches without elevation or prompting for elevation (either is ok). If I launch the shortcut directly it will prompt for elevation.

Am I doing something wrong or is there a workaround? I'm not sure how to get it to prompt aside from using a third party like gsudo to induce elevation.

[Hofknecht]

@DailenG
Thank you for the feedback!

i need to test with user without admin rights

Normally UAC should work like here with Admin user:

[Hofknecht]

@DailenG

ok now with normal user i can reproduce.
found this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16926232/run-process-as-administrator-from-a-non-admin-application
and with the change
Verb = "runas",
it works

[Hofknecht]

@DailenG will be in the next version (but i assume this takes a while), we added you to the thanks section : )

[Hofknecht]

when admin privliges then process does not start when using verb "runas"
checks for Admin not working so still open topic
we need to revert current change

[Hofknecht]

@topeterk
The first solution was bad.
Now there is a new one [1.3.2.6], hope this works fine.