[Work Laptop] Non-admin account running this as Administrator cannot update any software - Failed when opening source(s)

[ROBYER1]

When running this as Admin on a non admin account on a work managed machine (but I do have access to the admin password for UAC prompts and allow admin use), WingetUI cannot install anything when updating programs and always results with the same error. I always allow the UAC admin prompts for Admin access with the admin password, I am trying to update software installed on my local developer account and not the admin account.

For example when trying to update 7-Zip, this is the log:

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Failed when opening source(s); try the 'source reset' command if the problem persists. An unexpected error occurred while executing the command: 0x8a15000f : Data required by the source is missing

[marticliment]

Hi @ROBYER1, have you tried the admin flag?

[marticliment]

The elevation algorithm has been changed, could you please try it?

[ROBYER1]

Works great on my work laptop now as non admin user but using admin prompts!

[ALERTua]

The issue is not fixed for me, and the workaround does not work. My user is a non-administrator. I have Plex installed in Program Files.

• While trying to update Plex normally, the installer asks for an elevation, I provide it using the administrator user credentials, and the installer cannot be launched due to the path not found error.
• While trying to update it using Update as administrator, the error is the same.
• While trying to update it via Show Info -> Run as admin -> Update - the error is the same.

All cases lead to this error:

[Window Title]
Network Error

[Main Instruction]
Windows cannot access C:\Users\(my_non_admin_user)~1\AppData\Local\Temp\WinGet\Plex.Plex.1.62.2\Plex-1.62.2.3451-fb8ac0ae-x86_64.exe

[Content]
Check the spelling of the name. Otherwise, there might be a problem with your network. To try to identify and resolve network problems, click Diagnose.

[^] Hide details  [Diagnose] [Cancel]

[Expanded Information]
Error code: 0x80070043
The network name cannot be found.

upd: after further investigation I found that:

• Non-elevated winget upgrade plex.plex has the same error
• gsudo winget upgrade plex.plex doesn't work at all with

Failed in attempting to update the source: winget
Failed when searching source: winget
An unexpected error occurred while executing the command:
0x8a15000f : Data required by the source is missing

• nircmd elevate cmd /k winget upgrade plex.plex doesn't work either with the same error

So the bug is definitely not of WingetUI nature but of Winget itself https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/698 https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/2885

[marticliment]

yes, let's hope that they can fix that, because, as said, I can't do anything about it.