Windows 10: "Run As Different User" no longer works

I work in the IT department for a community college. For a while, especially with the Covid-19 pandemic, we used a workaround for doing one-time installs remotely, especially if it was a program that wouldn't work with our managed deployment for whatever reason. We would start a session with the user through Quick Assist or Zoom + screen share, shift+right-click for the Run As Different User option, and manually entering in administrator credentials. It worked well for us.Lately I have not been able to install anything with this method. Across multiple Windows 11 laptops, the same error happen

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Run as different user asks for email

Hi Bexultan. I'm Greg, 10 years awarded Windows MVP, here to help you.

Try these for Run as Different User:

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/63827-run-d...

((The great thing about MVP Shawn Brink's tutorials is that he is normally the best expert on the subjects he writes about, and is usually easily accessible in the Comments section of his tutorials where you can contact him if you need further help.)

http://woshub.com/run-program-as-different-user...

Report back results for each step so I know what else to suggest.

Feel free to ask back any questions. Based on the results you post back I may have other suggestions if necessary.

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Hibernate no longer working for desktop PC

I always disable Fast start.
It makes it harder to interrupt start from shutdown [Bios & Boot menu keys only work when the maker's logo is onscreen]. I appreciate that it makes no difference to restart.

I'm amazed that I have not suggested re-installing your display driver - not just check for an update, re-install.
In Windows 7 it was the standard first step when there was a sleep/hibernate problem.

I should also suggest testing in a different user account [even if you have to make one for the test] in case it is some strange corruption in your current user account.

Denis

 

Current active users that are friends

The other reason I suggested this is that users can add characters to their username that are not alphanumeric (e.g. user*). This confuses things somewhat when looking at the list.