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Edge Chromium 78.0.276.20 run as admin not working?
I think I have found the solution. There is a flag in "Edge://flags" called "De-elevate browser on launch". This setting has value default. When I disable this flag, and run as admin I do see an elevated process..
It is on my dev box so no problems with this version.
I did just found a possible issue. When I edit the properties of my Edge icon in the taskbar and set on the compatibility tab run as admin to on and start Edge I see the message "Admin mode detected". In this case everything works like expected.
So right click on the icon and choose run as admin doesn't seem to actually run in admin mode because I don't see the message "Admin mode detected"
Oh got ya 🙂
I want to start Edge in an elevated session so I can use some functions in SharePoint that are only enabled within an elevated session. With this option set to default of enabled Edge automatically de-elevates the session. So for my situation this option is not useful.
- Eventually I didn't get what you wanted, whether you want an elevated browser session or not. so first you intentionally launch your browser as admin then you go into flags and de elevate it!?!?! lol why
I think I have found the solution. There is a flag in "Edge://flags" called "De-elevate browser on launch". This setting has value default. When I disable this flag, and run as admin I do see an elevated process..
When I open Edge with run as admin and go into task manager process overview the column elevated has the value "No". I also installed the Edge stable on my Windows 10 laptop and there I see the same behavior.
I also tried installing the insider canary build. But there I also see this behavior