Windows 10: Prompt to execute shortcut

This time, for once, I actually want an "Are you sure . . ." window to pop up when executing a shortcut. Any suggestions?



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Running a command prompt as administrator ignores the "start in" folder

Hello

I can't find a forum category for Windows 10 desktop apps, so i've put it in the nearest i could find.

I have a command prompt shortcut saved to my desktop. For the shortcut, I have set "Start in" to the folder i want it to open to and the "Target" is "%windir%\system32\cmd.exe". This successfully opens at the Start In folder when i execute the shortcut.

I now want to run as administrator. If i set this under the Advanced tab of the shortcut and execute the shortcut it doesn't open in the right place anymore. It opens in c:\Windows\system32 The same thing happens if I right-click and "Run as administrator"

Is this a bug? If not, how do i open in the folder I specify as administrator?

thanks ....

 

Permissions between Windows 7 and Windows 10

Thanks, I poked around that a bit and didn't get any different results.

I attempted to run the executable, the shortcut leads to, directly with a right-click "Run As Admin".

I set the permissions on the shortcut to "Full Control".

I checked the "Run as Admin" box on the shortcut.

They all returned that the executable can't find the config file it's trying to open.

As an aside in hopes it sparks something for someone, I've got a separate software install I'm looking at and when I run the install as a right-click "Run as Admin" it returns a "file not found" type error but I execute the same exact install in a Administrator
Command Prompt and it runs without error.

It's almost as if the Run as Admin command is either starting with some different properties or some are being changed to something that's causing things to go awry.

 

You could have the shortcut point to a very simple Autohotkey script
Autohotkey is a free scripting language, well supported, and yours is a trivial case, so using the help file and examples you should be able to achieve that.

The script would use a
MsgBox

Displays the specified text in a small window containing one or more buttons (such as Yes and No).

followed by

IfMsgBox

Checks which button was pushed by the user during the most recent MsgBox command.

IfMsgBox, ButtonName

to check the response, and then conditionally launches your program.

 

OK, good suggestion. I normally use HotkeyP for key macros so I'll try that first. But Autohotkey is more extensive and I keep a copy at the ready.