Elevation problems in Windows 8

Just installed Windows 8 and imported my config. Seems that several buttons are now broken, including my truecrypt buttons and even the simple CLI DOSPROMPT=noadmin button. I get a command prompt flash up briefly but the commands don't take.

If I run DOpus as admin they work fine.

How do I fix this?

Honestly, the UAC in Windows 8 has been giving me nothing but trouble. Half the time I can't even install apps without running as admin now, even though my account is labeled as admin. Hrmm :angry:

What happens with that command? (I presume the "I get a command prompt flash up briefly but the commands don't take" is about the TrueCrypt commands, not the CLI one.)

What does CLI DOSPROMPT give you, without the noadmin? Is the resultant command prompt elevated or normal?

Assuming the TrueCrypt buttons are MS-DOS type ones (since they flash up a command prompt), add a Pause command to the end of them so that you can see what the command prompt is saying.

Most likely, the commands are no longer correct for where TrueCrypt is installed on the new machine, or TrueCrypt is having an error for some reason. (Maybe it cannot access the drive with the TrueCrypt containers unless it has admin access, because the permissions on the drive are messed up. That often happens if you move a data drive between Windows installs.)

UAC in Windows 8 is not that different to UAC in Windows 7. (Unless you've moved the UAC slider in Control Panel to the lowest setting, which is different to the options which were available in Windows 7, at least in the basic UAC control panel, but still break things.)

You've always needed to run most installers as admin.

CLI DOSPROMPT works, but CLI DOSPROMPT=noadmin did not.

TrueCrypt button is NOT a MS-DOS type, it's a Standard Opus Function.
Adding @admin to the command worked.

Honestly, something is different with 8. Same commands worked fine in 7. And I rarely had to run installers as admin, they just worked.

Anyway problems are sorted now, even if I don't understand :slight_smile: