Powertoys: [Run as Administrator at Startup] Generic Startup Error after update to 0.17.0

[gnappoforever]

Environment

Windows build number: 10.0.19041.207
PowerToys version: 0.17.0
PowerToy module for which you are reporting the bug (if applicable): Startup

Steps to reproduce

• Update PowerToys from 0.16.0 to 0.17.0

• Set PowerToys both to Always Run as Administrator and Run at Startup

• Reboot

Expected behavior

PowerToys launching in System Tray at Startup

Actual behavior

Error message appear. If PowerToys is manually run, it starts both in User and Admin mode.

Screenshots

[enricogior]

Hi @gnappoforever
can you try the following steps?

• open the general settings
• turn off Run at Startup
• turn off Always run as administrator
• restart the machine to make sure PowerToys doesn't auto-start
• open the general settings
• click on the Restart as administrator button

Did it restart as administrator correctly?
If yes, then

• open the general settings
• turn on Always run as administrator
• save and restart the machine

Does it still show the error dialog?
Thanks.

[gnappoforever]

Hi @enricogior
I've done all of your hints.
Everything worked fine, except you don't ask me to re-enable Run at Startup
I've done also this try, reboot the machine and everything just worked fine as well.
Maybe it was just a _"turn-off/turn-on"_ things I didn't thought about.
Thank you a lot for your time!

[enricogior]

OK, thanks for doing the extra step I forgot to mention. Glad the problem is solved.

[enricogior]

We still have to investigate the issue to make sure it's not a common bug.
It may be happening because the previous version wasn't installed correctly and the scheduled tasked was still present and with the wrong privileges.

[OskarKlintrot]

I got a similar problem. Now everytime I start my PC PowerToys is asking for permission to run as admin. It just asked once in 0.16 when turning on Always Run as Administrator.

[gnappoforever]

Hi @OskarKlintrot, have you tried the solution posted above? Maybe it could resolve your problem as well

@enricogior just for the sake of knowledge, yesterday I've updated Power Toys from 0.11.0 to 0.17.0 on another machine I own (with Win10 build 10.0.18363) and no issues occurred at all. Maybe it could be an interesting point in investigating this issue, I don't know but I wish to tell you anyway.

[enricogior]

@gnappoforever
thanks for letting us know.

[OskarKlintrot]

@gnappoforever How did I miss that post?! Anyway, that fixed the issue! I had already tried to toggle the admin off and on but that did not resolve the issue on it's own. Thank you!

[saahmedm]

Need to verify, if this still happens on latest

[enricogior]

The error reported in this issue seems to have been an isolated case, not to be confused with the problem of having the UAC showing up at startup, that is a different issue.
Closing the issue since for now until we get a repro.