Cannot start Windows Terminal through powershell cmdlet

[lanyizi]

Environment

Windows build number: Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.18363.0
Windows Terminal version (if applicable): 0.10.781.0
Powershell 5.1 / Powershell Core 7

Steps to reproduce

start wt -verb runas
# or
Start-Process "C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\wt.exe" -verb runas

Expected behavior

After a UAC confirmation prompt, Windows Terminal should be started under administrator mode.

Actual behavior

An error is displayed: This command cannot be run due to the error: The file cannot be accessed by the system.

[DHowett-MSFT]

Sounds like your admin user isn't the same as your normal user. That would be #4217.

[lanyizi]

Sounds like your admin user isn't the same as your normal user. That would be #4217.

I only created one user on this PC (and that's the user I'm using), it's also the administrator user.

[DHowett-MSFT]

Interesting. We usually only see this problem when the application is registered for a user that isn't the admin user. Unfortunately, since this is an app platform registration issue, there isn't much we can do about it.

You might be able to repair the application in the Application settings.