"Run As Different User" removed from Win 11 after latest update (8/13)

Microsoft and Windows 11 are going the best way about trying to annoy a lot of System Administrators and stop them using a Windows OS. :) A lot of thought must have gone into designing these systems so poorly.

This better be a bug. PUT IT BACK!!!

Agreed.

We have been undertaking a laborious process to migrate all of our SQL Server users from database authentication to Windows authentication so the IT admins can manage access through AD without having to configure the databases for each user. Our app admins routinely use Run as different user from the taskbar > SHIFT + RIGHT-CLICK to launch 3rd party apps that connect to SQL Server as data owner / service users for maintenance.

I know there are different ways to do this - RUNAS, Start menu, etc. - but 1) people are used to, and 2) it's so easy to do it from a pinned item on the task bar.

Please fix this regression ASAP.

[UPDATE]

This appears to be more complex than I realized - the behavior differs for different apps.

I don't know at this point which behavior is Windows 11 default and which is due to my fiddling with the Settings app, gpedit.msc, and regedit to try to enable Run as different user. What I find at the moment is I:

• Cannot run the ghastly new Terminal program as a different user, by any means
• Can run cmd.exe as a different user if, I do one of the following:
  • Use RUNAS /USER:username cmd.exe, which starts Terminal to prompt me for a password, then launches the original cmd.exe program
  • Do the above, pin the real cmd.exe to the taskbar, then use SHIFT+RIGHT-CLICK to access Run as different user from the context menu, as in the past
• Cannot run Calculator as a different user, by any means
• Can run SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) using SHIFT+RIGHT-CLICK from the taskbar

Most importantly, I can run SSMS as different users.

The Terminal behavior, however, is problematic because I use Python frequently in a command prompt for management tasks (both running complete scripts, and interactively in the interpreter). I'm sure there's some solution in here, but I haven't found it yet after exploring Terminal's Profiles and trying various ways to launch the real cmd.exe (which, in most cases, seems to launch Terminal instead).

Calculator doesn't matter in this case; I just happen to notice that it behaved differently than some other apps while testing.

I'll post more if I figure out what's happening. In the meantime, if anyone can explain why different apps behave differently - and, ideally, how to get all apps to show Run as different user in their taskbar context menus, I'd appreciate it.

Is there any post about this specific issue in Microsoft Q&A? I could not find.
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