Admin shortcuts do not open in Terminal Preview

[obrobrio2000]

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Windows Terminal version (or Windows build number)

10.0.21390.1, 1.9.1445.0

Other Software

No response

Steps to reproduce

1. Set WT Preview as the default terminal application following the steps described here;
2. Launch CMD/PS as administrator.

Expected Behavior

Elevated CMD/PS should respect the default terminal choice just like when non-elevated.

Actual Behavior

CMD/PS open in Terminal only if launched with standard privileges. When launched as administrator they still open in Console Host.
Feedback Hub link: https://aka.ms/AAcrn4y

[DHowett]

Unfortunately, this is by design right now. Due to a limitation in the app platform it is impossible for Terminal to be "discovered" as the handler when the application that needs a terminal is running elevated.

This is tracked internally at MSFT:39500755. There's a decent amount of platform work that will be needed for this.

[xparadoxical]

just bumped my head into gerardog/gsudo#117 and, by extension, this. 😔

[zadjii-msft]

As a 2023 status update: This still doesn't seem to be supported by the platform. We're not sure when the COM team will be able to fix this.

edit to include some search phrases: defterm elevated admin COM handoff defapp

[Echostorm44]

A year later, any update on this? Still an issue in VS2022 and Windows 11.

[michalsteyn]

This issue has now been open for over 3 years. Shocking this is taking soo long. For Dev's running VS 2022 as Admin, this is really a pain.

[ayanamist]

I see some workarounds (in chinese), maybe help:
https://t.me/yscschan/7010
https://t.me/yscschan/7014?single

[PogromistDev]

Visual studio developer command prompt runs in terminal only if you already run terminal as administrator and then executed "Developer Command Prompt for VS 2022" .lnk file or just passed its command directly
%comspec% /k "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\Common7\Tools\VsDevCmd.bat" -arch=amd64