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Asked: 2026-06-10T12:18:50+00:00

I’m running Windows 7, and recently installed the update so I can use Powershell

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I’m running Windows 7, and recently installed the update so I can use Powershell 3.0. That process went fine and I’ve been using Powershell 3 for about a month now. One thing I noticed is that every time I run Powershell now, it runs with elevated privileges. I don’t right click and Run As Administrator, I just do a normal left click. This happens when I run from the Start Menu, or when it’s pinned to the task bar or however I start it. This never happened with Powershell 2. I’ve done nothing special to make it always run as Admin, as I don’t want to always run as Admin. Does anyone have any suggestions of things I can check?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you have set in the properties of the Powershell shorcut ( under Advanced ) and set it to run as Administrator, it will always run in admin mode. See if this is the case and remove the setting if so.

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    (Note that if the same shortcut is pinned, you will see the same effect when opening from pinned applications as well, as you experience)

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