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Okay I'm gonna try and read between the lines here:

• your default profile is PowerShell 7
• You've set your PowerShell 7 profile to "elevate": true (in the settings UI, this is "Run this profile as administrator")
• you open the Terminal (unelevated) and run CMD
• From that unelevated window, you open a new tab.
  • That uses the default profile, PowerShell 7
  • That opens a new, elevated window

Is that about right? Elevated and unelevated tabs can't coexist in the same Terminal window (as of writing, circa <=1.21). Either all the tabs are unelevated, or all are elevated.

Now, with the upcoming Windows 11 release with Sudo for Windows, you could probably change your default profile from pwsh.exe and elevate:true to just sudo.exe pwsh.exe, and then just run the Terminal unelevated all the time.

Overall, I'd recommend against having your default profile be elevate:true. There's kinda a lot of awkward edge cases with the default profile always wanting to run in an elevated window - this is just one of them

from terminal.

Ah you're right, I was running CMD unelevated, I had them all set to open in admin so thought I was running all of them elevated. Changing them back to unelevated works as I want it to.

Thanks

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