Taskbar context menu option to launch Taskmgr fails

[tcorbet]

I'm sorry for entering this as a discussion, I do not have sufficient understanding/expertise to be able to successfully open a bug issue. The title of this discussion point is pretty much the whole matter. After last Tuesday's Windows 11 update, a new version of C:\Windows\System32\taskmgr.exe has been installed and now clicking on the context menu results in the pop-up message indicating that "The requested operation requires elevation." Yes, there are available alternatives, but I found it convenient to be able to start Task Manager from your version of the Taskbar.

[pyrates999]

is it the same error message as here? https://superuser.com/questions/1750683/taskmgr-exe-the-requested-operation-requires-elevation

[tcorbet]

Yes, thank you for the follow-up question; the pop-up is the same as discussed in that StackExchange post and my work-around solution is derived from variations of the suggested solutions posted there. I hope, however, that your question is not the answer.

I believe that the context menu option "Task Manager" appears on my Task Bar because
a.) clicking on the Properties context menu option opens a pop-up with the familiar suite of options beginning with the one labeled "Taskbar" and I believe I have correctly selected the "Taskbar style*:Windows 10 (Explorer Patcher)" and
b.) on the one labeled "Advanced" I have followed the recommendation to not change any 11 feature characteristics mentioned there and
c.) I have followed the link to read the "Important notice regarding ExplorerPatcher's taskbar implementation"

to arrive at a very helpful, very fulsome table of Supported Windows Versions and so, having made the update that triggered the new problem I am able to say that winver reports:
Version 24H2 (OS Build 26100.3915) and I am pretty certain from looking at the datetime stamp on taskmgr.exe,, as indicated in my original post, that it is an updated version of that executable which introduces the problem. I don't know if that means that the ExplorerPatcher code has to be updated to return to the status quo ante, I should just stick with my work-around of not clicking on the Taskbar's Task Manager context menu option or I should overlay the new version of taskmgr.exe with an older version that sort of works, but actually exhibits a different bug which I have elsewhere attempted to report in which right-clicking on an entry in the Task Manager raises this Application Event Viewer error

Faulting application name: taskmgr10.exe, version: 10.0.22000.778, time stamp: 0x152731d3
Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 10.0.26100.3912, time stamp: 0xbae89f93
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000000000168605
Faulting process id: 0x1FD4
Faulting application start time: 0x1DBBAA9E06B681E
Faulting application path: D:\SW\TaskManager_Win10\system32\taskmgr10.exe
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
Report Id: 75d0daa6-bcd5-4b5c-ab9a-5e5495c3f5bc
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

[pyrates999]

Then I suggest you post on your original discussion instead of here and close this.

[tcorbet]

OK, I will close this. If there is some "original discussion" attributed to me, I am unable to search to find it, so please close or otherwise get it out of the way. Thanks for your help.

[pyrates999]

that would be this one: #4263