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Hi,

I have a desktop flow in which I need to launch a browser under a different Windows user than the one currently logged in on the server. To achieve this, I use the Run PowerShell script action in Power Automate Desktop.

The PowerShell “Run As” script itself is very simple, and it works correctly — the browser opens under the intended user as expected. However, the flow does not proceed past the Run PowerShell script action. It remains stuck on that step, even though the browser has already opened successfully. The only way to make the flow continue is to close the browser window manually; once the browser is closed, the flow immediately moves on to the next action.

Based on this behavior, I suspect the issue lies within Power Automate Desktop rather than the script itself, as the exact same script executes perfectly when run directly inside the PowerShell console.

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Power Automate Desktop

I haven't done anything like this before but these are suggestions that came to mind:

Make the action timeout at some point and continue the flow. If I understood correctly the browser opens correctly but the only issue is that the flow never continues from the "Run PowerShell script" -action.

1. Add timeout to the "Run PowerShell script" -action. Add some amount that you know it should not go over.

2. Add On error handling to continue the flow run

Then maybe add "If window" -condition to check if the browser window has actually opened. and if not try again with longer time out and if it still haven't opened the browser Stop flow and some additional error handling

Can you share the PowerShell script so that we could maybe spot the issue why it never finishes.
Maybe try adding "exit" line after it opens the browser process.