Process Explorer will not run as Administrator

Timothy Boyle Jr 21

The location of procexp.exe has changed, and when trying to run the program as an administrator from the File menu in the application (or by running "procexp /e"), the program looks for the executable at the old path.
The file is not launched from that location, and that location no longer exists.

Philchel-8024 106 Reputation points

2022-09-17T19:53:03.877+00:00

location of procexp.exe has changed

and where is it now if you search procexp.exe manually ?
Timothy Boyle Jr 21 Reputation points

2022-09-19T13:59:30.083+00:00

C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.SysinternalsSuite_2022.8.0.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\Tools\procexp.exe

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MotoX80 33,376 Reputation points

2022-09-18T12:50:23.043+00:00

The Sysinternals tools don't get installed but they do save their settings in the registry at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Sysinternals.

If you delete the Process Explorer subkey it will act like it's the first time that you ran the program. IE; it will prompt you to accept the EULA and all settings will be the defaults.
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Timothy Boyle Jr 21 Reputation points

2022-09-19T20:04:44.403+00:00

The value of OriginalPath was never updated (and apparently, when deleting just that value, Process Explorer does not need it, and uses its own current path), and this was sufficient to "reset" the program. I should have searched through the registry more thoroughly before, although I do consider this to be buggy behavior for an app that is "portable".
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Dillon Silzer 57,231 Reputation points

2022-09-17T17:17:29.22+00:00

Hi @Timothy Boyle Jr

This looks like it was a part of your Downloads folder and may have been moved or deleted.

You can redownload this package from https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sysinternals-suite and place it in the same directory (Downloads\SysinternalsSuite)

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Timothy Boyle Jr 21 Reputation points

2022-09-19T14:12:00.163+00:00

It is not a matter of not having the files. If it was not clear in the original message, I can run Process Explorer, and I do have all of the necessary files. But Process Explorer is still looking for itself at the old path.

Dillon Silzer 57,231 Reputation points

2022-09-19T19:02:21.997+00:00

Please see @MotoX80 response about deleting the registry key.
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