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Ctrl+Shift to Run as Administrator No Longer Works
Fresh7 days ago
Mar 15, 20266987 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Problem
Holding Ctrl+Shift while clicking on a shortcut (or in the Start Menu’s search box) no longer works to run as administrator. Specifically, nothing happens; no UAC prompt and the program does not run at all. I can still run things as administrator by using the run as admin context-menu item on the E…
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Fix for: Ctrl+Shift to Run as Administrator No Longer Works
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I have had UAC turned off for quite a while now I suspected that UAC was off while reading the question. A lot of people misunderstand what the "Run As Administrator" option does. That has nothing to do with using an account named Administrator or a…
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