How to prevent uninstaller elevating for Standard Windows 10 user?

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This is a bug in “Apps & features” as far as I know. The WiX people have closed this issue as a Windows bug and I assume they have notified the correct people @ Microsoft. The behavior is still the same in Insider build 15042 though so it is probably not going to get fixed in time for the Creators Update.

There is no workaround you can use if the standard user cannot elevate.

If they can elevate then you can use the re-spawn workaround posted in the comments or manually load the user profile and call RegOverridePredefKey but they are both ugly hacks (IMHO).

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