Run As Administrator is Broken

This one has me stumped. Something I did today caused what can I only assume to be programs that need to run as administrator to fail. Anything with that little shield next to it.

Examples:
Right clicking on My Computer > Manage wont open but typing manage then clicking on Computer Management from the search will open it.
Remote Desktop pinned jump lists (and recent for that matter) will not open. Opening remote desktop and typing in the computer will work perfectly. Making a shortcut FROM the pinned jumplist on the desktop (right click, drag, make shortcut) works. This one is the most annoying as I am frequently remote desktoping into other computers.

UAC is turned off and has been up until this error started. I have tired turning it back on, restarting, no go. It has now been turned back off.

I have tried logging in as the administrator account, no go. No luck in safe mode either.

When this happens, I can see what appears to be a program icon trying to load then it disappears.
I'm out of ideas and am close to sticking the disc in and running a re-install but thought i'd try here first.

Thoughts anyone?

Well.. system restore finally worked, choosing a date from sometime last week rather than monday.. Shrug. Crisis averted.

Sad face... I'm now on Windows7Professional with a brand spanking new user profile (nothing copied across, all setup new) and it's happening again!

Exactly the same symptoms as previous, right click my computer > manage doesn't work nor any remote desktop pinned or recent items... Anyone else seen/experienced this?

When you say brand new setup - do you have any programs installed?

Are you using any kind of cleaning/reg cleaning app?

ah, Brand New referes to a fresh install from a win7x64 dvd and not copying my profile across from the rc2 install.

No reg cleaning apps. I tried creating a new user and logging in there, restarting and logging in as myself to no avail (doing that has fixed things in the past).

I have the same problem. I found a work around after ripping through the registry.

For some reason that I do not know of CompMgmtLauncher.exe fails to start the Computer Manager.

I use the Right-Click->Computer->Manager all the time so I made a work around.


Replace C:\Windows with your %SystemRoot% if you need to.

Create a Batch File under C:\Windows\System32\ called CompMgmtLauncher.bat
Edit CompMgmtLauncher.bat and put in these two lines

Start C:\Windows\System32\compmgmt.msc
Exit

Save batch file and exit

Type Regedit and do a search for CompMgmtLauncher.exe

Mine was located here.

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Manage\command]

Under this key you will find a line that ends in CompMgmtLauncher.exe

Change the exe to bat and Manage should now work.

I know it is not the best fix in the world but it gets your right-click manage back up and running fast.

I'm still having this problem.

I really cant be bothered reinstalling windows7 to fix this. Anyone got any more suggestions?

It happens with UAC turned on or off, anything that requires elevated permissions to be accepted in the background e.g. right click my computer, manage, or right click something run as administrator do not work.

this also affects pinned remote desktop shortcuts.

Anyone?

I did what is essentially a repair install (chuck the disc in, hit upgrade) and it didn't fix it.

What the hell have I done both times around to get this to happen? ARFGH.

This is happening to me too.

I just solved the same problem, and I posted my solution here:

"Run As Administrator" on program right click failing and not launching program - Server Fault