UAC blocking changes to shortcut properties

[Guest nb5]

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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