Unable to turn off "Always run as administrator

[Dreistul-dev]

Microsoft PowerToys version

0.61.1

Running as admin

• Yes

Area(s) with issue?

General

Steps to reproduce

Turning off "Always Run as Administrator" doesn't work. Requires admin login at every startup.

✔️ Expected Behavior

Unchecking "Always Run as administrator" would save the setting. Restart of PowerToys would not require an admin login.

❌ Actual Behavior

PowerToys asks for admin login during next restart. "Always run as administrator" is checked on again.

Other Software

No response

[jaimecbernardo]

/bugreport

Hi there!

We need a bit more information to really debug this issue. Can you add a "Report Bug" zip file here? You right click on our system tray icon and just go to report bug. Then drag the zipfile from your desktop onto the GitHub comment box in this issue. Thanks!

[bendem]

Not OP but I have the same problem. In my case, the likely culprit is that PowerToys is started using UAC with another account that the session actually open.

Had to go to the desktop folder of that user to get the diagnostic zip and a bunch of other features are broken (fancyzone win+arrows, key remapping).
PowerToysReport_2022-08-16-13-55-19.zip

[Dreistul-dev]

Very likely the cause. Company policy now requires me to use a new administrator account separate from my main user account which I used to install initially. Uninstall and reinstall seems to keep everything linked to the original user account.

[neddntd]

PowerToysReport_2022-08-25-16-18-58.zip
Here is the Bug Report as requested.

[neddntd]

Don't know if this helps anyone, but if you navigate to 'C:\Users%username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\PowerToys' and open the settings.json in a text editor there is a "run_elevated" option. I changed that to 'false' and relaunched the app and it fixed my issue.