Winget Uninstall Denies Admin User While App is Running

[PinkPanther901]

Gave the app a try, decided it wasn't for me -- ran the following command:

winget uninstall windows-terminal-quake

Result:

An unexpected error occurred while executing the command:
remove: Access is denied.: "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WinGet\Packages\flyingpie.windows-terminal-quake_Microsoft.Winget.Source_8wekyb3d8bbwe\wtq.exe"

To solve for this, I had to manually kill all instaces of wtq.exe

Unsure if this is an issue with winget or with the app, thought I'd leave this here in case it helps someone else.

[flyingpie]

@PinkPanther901 Thank you for your feedback!

Anything in particular that made you leave, like a particular feature or bug?

[PinkPanther901]

Hi @flyingpie - happy to help!

I already have a macro setup to toggle Windows Terminal in/out of focus (minimize/maximize) and sometimes use Alt+Tab when I'm also working on coding.

Since wtq hides the window (I'm guessing under a different principal?) from the alt tab dialogue entirely, I lose the ability to choose when I want to just open the terminal for a single command (like the default behavior), versus "open, and stay open"

I also have some FancyZones panels running, and it didn't play well with those.

Take care!

[flyingpie]

@PinkPanther901 Makes sense, thank you for clarifying!

[flyingpie]

Regarding the bug itself, I'd need to investigate this a bit further.

Not sure how that's usually handled with winget-installed apps, and if it's something that the app is messing up to prevent proper shutdown.