That's already the case AFAIKKartoffelpüre wrote: ↑Fri Jun 24, 2022 9:00 am In my opinion Freecad should only install into C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\ if the user do not have Admin rights.
FreeCad 0.20 on windows only runs as administrator
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Re: FreeCad 0.20 on windows only runs as administrator
Re: FreeCad 0.20 on windows only runs as administrator
When I chose "for me only" it did install into "C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\FreeCAD\".
I uninstalled completely (all versions and settings), rebooted, and reinstalled and still have this issue.
I also tried the fix from the other thread of allowing local\users to have full control of the FreeCAD directory but it did not help.
Tim
I uninstalled completely (all versions and settings), rebooted, and reinstalled and still have this issue.
I also tried the fix from the other thread of allowing local\users to have full control of the FreeCAD directory but it did not help.
Tim
Re: FreeCad 0.20 on windows only runs as administrator
I also tried installing it to the d: drive, same issue.
This is the pop-up error I get when trying to launch:
This is the pop-up error I get when trying to launch:
Re: FreeCad 0.20 on windows only runs as administrator
If you want to include an image you must load it directly into the message using the Attachments tab below the edit window. Links will not work.
[Correction] Image tag links (Insert image) will not work. URL tags will work.
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Re: FreeCad 0.20 on windows only runs as administrator
Incorrect* links will not work, you need to use the direct url of the image (https://i.imgur.com/k1kP0qg.png), not of the imgur page, uploading directly to the forum is still better though as it is more likely to keep working in the future.
Re: FreeCad 0.20 on windows only runs as administrator
Thanks for fixing the image link.
I also tried the "portable" install and had the same issue, it also required admin rights to avoid aborting with the unknown runtime error.
Tim
I also tried the "portable" install and had the same issue, it also required admin rights to avoid aborting with the unknown runtime error.
Tim
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Re: FreeCad 0.20 on windows only runs as administrator
does it work if you create a new user and run the application from it?
Re: FreeCad 0.20 on windows only runs as administrator
Hmm, yes running from another local login does work. I use a domain login though:(
Tim
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Re: FreeCad 0.20 on windows only runs as administrator
something is up with your user then, windows 10 is weird (and likely 11 too) in the past I had many issues that I could only solve by making a new user. Don't know if that is your case or it's a bug in FreeCAD with you user type. Can you double check what user is listed as owner of your %APPDATA% and %APPDATA%/FreeCAD folders? What exactly is a domain user? Is it one of those were you can login with the same user on multiple PCs? Was the other user you tried also a domain user? @uwestoehr I think you work on a company that runs many windows machines right, do you also have a domain user were you can test FreeCAD?
Re: FreeCad 0.20 on windows only runs as administrator
Reading the thread it is not clear to me what you issue is. You are logged in as admin, right? Then when you choose to install only for you, it is installed to "C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\FreeCAD\" (according to the Windows guidelines)
What is wrong with this? Can't you start FreeCAD then (of course you then need to be logged in as admin).
(By the way, it is a bit strange that you logged in as admin but only install FreeCAD for you. The Admin account is not meant to use it as normal user.)