We have an EXE-packaged Electron application that needs to run under Windows with elevated privileges (uiAccess=true) to prevent user from accessing Windows when it runs in full screen.
Setting uiAccess="true" in the manifest file causes a problem: any loadURL() call is ignored silently, both for HTML files in local directory and to a locally running HTTP server.
- With
uiAccessset tofalsecallingloadURL()works well, for any user - With
uiAccessset totruecallingloadURL()only works if the EXE is run by a user with admin privileges (even without running it "as administrator"), or if it is launched from a normal user account with "Run as Administrator" option. - Otherwise
loadURL()does not do anything, without throwing any error
Everything else seems to work normally (creating windows, capturing events, etc.)
UPD: I've added logging and found out that two events are emitted by BrowserWindow's webContent shortly after calling loadURL:
"did-stop-loading"
"crashed"
This indicates that renderer process has crashed - but why? Setting ELECTRON_ENABLE_STACK_DUMPING and ELECTRON_ENABLE_LOGGING environment variables to true does not give any more info.
Any ideas what could be a reason, and how can it be solved?
