Elevated Consoles Unusable in beta-18133,b29acb42

[XLTechie]

Steps to reproduce:

Press: Windows+r
Type: cmd
Press: ctrl+shift+enter.
Proceed past the UAC dialog.

Actual behavior:

After entering the password or whatever to pass the UAC, the introductory text to the console speaks, as well as the initial prompt.
Thereafter, only Windows error sounds are generated for any key press, including NVDA commands.

Expected behavior:

Achieve a usable console.

System configuration

Installed NVDA beta-18133,b29acb42
Windows 10, 1903 64bit.

Other information about your system:

Other questions

Does the issue still occur after restarting your PC?

Yes

Have you tried any other versions of NVDA? If so, please report their behaviors.

Did not happen under 2019.1.1 last time I had it installed.

Comments

I notice that in the elevated copy of NVDA, the Advanced settings are unavailable. That makes me wonder if the UI Automation support is unavailable in this situation, and if that might be contributing?

[josephsl]

Hi, I can’t reproduce this in alpha at the moment. What happens when you start with add-ons off? CC @codeofdusk

[XLTechie]

Additional element: if this is done from an administrative account, the problem does not exist. It only seems to happen if done from a non-admin account, with an admin password entered at the UAC. Add-ons enabled or disabled makes no difference. After updating virtualization options in Turn Windows Features On and Off, the Windows error sounds have disappeared, and now the consoles are just entirely silent. Tried to test with alpha, but it doesn't like the idea of installing over a newer beta.

[XLTechie]

Log attached. Windows errors 5 and 6 in the tracebacks.

Maybe related to #9867
nvda-windows-errors-5and6.txt

[lukaszgo1]

I've tested on my vm running Win 10 1903 with NVDA 2019.1.1 and the situation is the same so it isn't a regression. NVDA never worked particurarly well with appps running as a different user.

[Adriani90]

@XLTechie are you still having this issue in NVDA 2023.2?

[XLTechie]

No, thought this was closed long ago.