No way to create interactive elevated mods

[Anixx]

I think, this is quite a serius limitation. Particularly, it severely limits the abilities to affect the elevated windows.

Are there planned or potential ways to fix this? Maybe, some tools to create separate interactive elevated Windhawk processes?

[m417z]

Windhawk was designed to customize existing programs, not create new ones. The Mods as tools approach is a workaround that uses Windhawk's own process to spawn a mod in a separate, isolated process. This workaround didn't require changes in Windhawk itself, but having a similar workaround with an elevated isolated process is more challenging.

For the portable version of Windhawk running non-elevated, that's just not possible, unless the mod elevates itself, in which case the user will see the UAC prompt. For the portable version of Windhawk running elevated, tool mods will run elevated as well.

For the non-portable version of Windhawk, the only process running elevated is the Windhawk service, and it's a single process for all users. Mods can target it (example: #56), but they will run in session 0, isolated from the interactive sessions (session 1, 2, ... for logged in users). So how will your suggestion work? One way is for the service to support special kinds of "mods" (which are no longer mods, but rather programs), and run them for all logged in users. That will require some work. Another way to have a mod do that - target the service process, and spawn elevated instances for all users. That will be similar, just implemented by the mod.

If you want to experiment, you can try the mod implementation. For now, I don't plan on adding something like this to Windhawk itself.