Set the Windows Terminal as the “Default terminal applications" not work with administrator privileges.

[fuchanghao]

Windows Terminal version

1.17.11461.0

Windows build number

10.0.19044.3086

Other Software

No response

Steps to reproduce

log in windows 10 as normal user account.

set the Windows Terminal as the “Default terminal applications"

Test1:

create a simple "test.cmd"

cd /d c:\
pause

right click "test.cmd" and choose: "Run as administrator".

Test2:

double-click a cmd file which has “administrator elevation request” codes.

Test3:

log in as system build-in "Administrator" account and do the Test1 and Test2 again.

Test4:

1.log in as system build-in "Administrator" account.
2.open "Group Policy" and enable "User Account Control: Admin Approval Mode for the Built-in Administrator account" : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-protection/security-policy-settings/user-account-control-admin-approval-mode-for-the-built-in-administrator-account
3.Do the Test1 and Test2 again.

Expected Behavior

When I right click "test.cmd" and choose: "Run as administrator" or run a cmd file which has “administrator elevation request” codes.

After the UAC pop-up, It will open an "Administrator: Command Prompt" Tab on Windows Terminal to run the codes.

Actual Behavior

For Test1 and Test2:

It opens a conhost.exe and run the codes.

For Test3

It opens an "Administrator: Command Prompt" Tab on Windows Terminal to run the codes.

For Test4:

It opens a conhost.exe and run the codes again.

I don't know why the same “Default terminal applications" setting cause different results.

[zadjii-msft]

Thanks for the suggestion! This is actually already being tracked by another issue on our repo - please refer to #10276 for more discussion.

/dup #10276

[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!