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Published 1 year ago • verified publisher icon caoyue

Getting "Unable to resize process, elevated privileges may be required" on several apps

Open thesoloist-1 opened this issue 2 years ago • 10 comments

Any ideas how to fix this? Tried running as administrator but still doesn't work.

thesoloist-1 avatar Jul 12 '23 03:07 thesoloist-1

I am in the same situation with a software, if you see any solution... I will do the same.

Gonnno avatar Jul 17 '23 12:07 Gonnno

I am in the same situation with a software, if you see any solution...

I will do the same.

Turning off Admin Approval Mode using Secpol worked for me.

thesoloist-1 avatar Jul 17 '23 12:07 thesoloist-1

Hi, can you provide some of the apps that are causing the problem?

caoyue avatar Jul 20 '23 04:07 caoyue

Hello, only the "Macro Recorder by Jitbit" software has this issue.

Gonnno avatar Jul 20 '23 07:07 Gonnno

I have a couple of custom apps that are affected by this, but turning off admin approval worked for them.

thesoloist-1 avatar Jul 20 '23 13:07 thesoloist-1

This issue is inactive because it has been open for 30 days with no activity.

github-actions[bot] avatar Aug 20 '23 01:08 github-actions[bot]

This issue was closed because it has been inactive for 14 days since being marked as stale.

github-actions[bot] avatar Sep 03 '23 02:09 github-actions[bot]

Sorry for the late reply. Have you tried starting WindowResizer as administrator? If the problem persists, please add the name of the software experiencing the problem below.

caoyue avatar Dec 18 '23 09:12 caoyue

How can I run windows resizer on one computer with two users at the same time please, I can't, it only lets me open it with one user

nisocapitalfx avatar Jan 04 '24 10:01 nisocapitalfx

This issue is inactive because it has been open for 30 days with no activity.

github-actions[bot] avatar Feb 04 '24 02:02 github-actions[bot]

An example of this is Process Explorer (procexp64.exe). Sometimes WindowResizer doesn't even save the process in the list of saved positions.

Tested with v1.3.4+da97300, running as normal user -- running as admin bricked WindowResizer bundled executable (WindowResizer-1.3.4.exe), more info at the end

  1. Run Process Explorer as a limited user (launch it without doing anything fancy)
  2. Save All + Restore all (works fine)
  3. Elevate procexp (File > Show details for all Processes)
  4. Save all. It lists process explorer in the list of saved windows
  5. Restore all. Resized/moved Process Explorer won't be fixed.

I couldn't reproduce again the issue where procexp64.exe doesn't get listed. It was consistently happening, then I restarted procexp to check in non-elevated mode and it listed.

Well then I tried to restart explorer.exe so that Procexp became "orphan" to see if WindowResizer wouldn't find procexp anymore, lost access to WindowResizer tray icon and couldn't open settings window. Killing WindowResizer process broken the tool such as I can't start it anymore. It starts, mysteriously tries to start itself again and fails with "installation failed, re run as normal user instead of admin". But now that's another problem. :P (edit: issue with .NET "bundled" executable, using the portable version avoided the issue, but there's still some cached .NET leftover that's breaking the bundled version. it was triggered by killing the self-extracted executable and the issue may be related with trying to run the bundled exe once, as admin)

edit2: running the portable version as administrator avoids the issue.

avengerx avatar Mar 23 '25 21:03 avengerx