I'm getting crazy. Totally. I'm now convinced aliens kidnapped me in my sleep and changed my Vista installation.
This morning, I tried to open a Command Prompt as administrator. I pressed Win-Z, typed "cmd", pressed Ctrl-Enter to get to the slimKEYS extended options, made sure the verb was "runas" and pressed Enter to launch the app as admin... But nothing. No UAC prompt, no Command Prompt, nothing.
So I pressed the Win key, typed "Command" to highlight "Command Prompt" in Vista's start menu, pressed the context menu key, and selected "Run as administrator"... Nothing more. I could hear my fish breath.
I went back to slimKEYS and tried launching "Notepad2" (my Notepad replacement) as admin, and it worked. I tried Windows' own Notepad, and it failed. Hun? Tried again with the Vista start menu, failed too.
I decided to try checking the "run this program as an administrator" option and see what happened, but something I'd never seen before prevented me of doing so:
"Compatibility modes cannot be set on this program because it is part of this version of Windows". What? When did that "new feature" (!) appeared? I have ran Command Prompt and Notepad as admin in the past, I know this is new. But since when? And how the hell am I suppose to run a Command Prompt as admin now? What did I do to enable that counter-productive and stupid feature? Did I mess with something or did a Windows Update change that behavior?
I tried looking for answers on the net, but either I'm not using the correct keywords, or it's a new problem nobody had before.
What is happening to my Vista?