On my machine (Windows 10), I have one Administrative user and one standard user.
I launch chrome on my Administrative user account. I then lock my account and log into my standard user account. I then run cmd as Administrator and am prompted with UAC. When I launch chrome (start chrome) nothing happens. I have attached a stack trace below from –enable-logging –v=1. I am still able to launch chrome when I run the cmd without elevated privileges as the standard user.
[1044:4904:0723/141901.799:ERROR:disk_cache.cc(184)] Unable to create cache
[1044:4904:0723/141901.799:ERROR:shader_disk_cache.cc(606)] Shader Cache Creation failed: -2
[1044:10988:0723/141901.800:ERROR:process_singleton_win.cc(411)] Lock file can not be created! Error code: 32
[1044:10988:0723/141901.800:ERROR:chrome_browser_main.cc(1292)] Failed to create a ProcessSingleton for your profile directory. This means that running multiple instances would start multiple browser processes rather than opening a new window in the existing process. Aborting now to avoid profile corruption.
From a high level I need a full-proof way to launch a webpage. Obviously users use many browsers so a chrome-only solution is not viable. I am launching my webpage from cmd using start https://www.stackoverflow.com/. It is my understanding the default browser is used (which in my reproducible example is chrome)
