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Old 07-22-2007   #1 (permalink)
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UAC blocking changes to shortcut properties

UAC appears to block changes to certain shortcuts, such as Command Prompt.
Obviously, changing shortcuts system-wide should require an elevation, and
indeed a prompt appears when changing such a shortcut. However, no changes
take effect, even though elevation succeeded. This seems to be a bug, perhaps
only in the special property pages for command-line programs.
My specific problem that triggered this post was in modifying extended
properties of a command line program shortcut, Windows PowerShell. I wanted
to change its layout from 60 lines high to 59. Unfortunately, the only way to
change this is to run PowerShell as administrator and change the properties
from there. This is not too bad, but I would like to see the bug fixed.

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