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Pin the DisplayName to Windows Terminal to fix the UAC prompt #4995

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There's an issue in the UAC consent dialog where it cannot read an
application's name if it's stored in a resource. When it fails, it deems
us an "Unknown Program" and that looks pretty silly.

Fixes #2289.

There's an issue in the UAC consent dialog where it cannot read an
application's name if it's stored in a resource. When it fails, it deems
us an "Unknown Program" and that looks pretty silly.

Fixes #2289.
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There's an issue in the UAC consent dialog where it cannot read an
application's name if it's stored in a resource. When it fails, it deems
us an "Unknown Program" and that looks pretty silly.

Fixes #2289.

(cherry picked from commit aaa4943)
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WSLUser commented Mar 19, 2020

I was actually going to file an issue for this. Glad you fixed it for v1.

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ghost commented Mar 20, 2020

🎉Windows Terminal Preview v0.10.781.0 has been released which incorporates this pull request.:tada:

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No VERSIONINFO resource? [UAC prompt says "Unknown program" instead of "Windows Terminal"]
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