crash bug when attempting to Restart PowerToys as administrator

[k8linsheridan]

Microsoft PowerToys version

0.87.1

Installation method

PowerToys auto-update

Running as admin

No

Area(s) with issue?

Settings, General

Steps to reproduce

1. Use Windows Search to find and start PowerToys
2. Click "open settings" under the Welcome message.
3. In the new window that opens, click the upper left hamburger icon and select "General"
4. Scroll down to "Administrator mode" and click the "Restart PowerToys as administrator"
5. Observe that PowerToys crashes almost immediately after clicking.

✔️ Expected Behavior

Expectation was for PowerToys to cue my admin login screen, as it typical does when I restart it as admin. After I enter my login info, PowerToys is normally running in admin mode.

❌ Actual Behavior

When I hit "Restart PowerToys as administrator" the cursor becomes a windows-wait/blue circle of death briefly before PowerToys completely and abruptly crashes and disappears. I verified in task manager that PowerToys is no longer running after this. I've repeatedly tried to restart PowerToys as admin without success.

Other Software

No response

[similar-issues-ai]

We've found some similar issues:

• Crashed or Exited after restarting as admin #18105 , similarity score: 82%

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