Thanks for the report! I think this problem is much more widespread than some seem to believe.
The people who are NOT having issues running FAH as a 'standard' user probably do not realize that either:
1. The account they run it under is actually an admin account (note: if there is only one account on a Windows PC, that account is required by the OS to be an admin account)
-OR-
2. It WAS an admin account when FAH was first installed and the account was later changed to 'standard'. In this case the account would have the required folder permissions and the launch and startup icons would be created on the correct account.
-OR-
3. They very recently installed FAH and left the box checked to "run FAH" at the end of the install process. In this case FAH is running under the admin account due to the installer (which runs as admin) launching the FAH program. If they attempt to restart FAH under their standard account there will be issues (ie when they quit FAH, reboot, or logout/login to windows, etc).
-OR-
4. They have some unusual security permissions setup on their file system.
-OR- (as SetiCrew486 mentions below)
5. The first installation of the FAH client was prior to V7.4.18, FAH was installed for "all users", and has only been updated since.
-OR-
6. They copied shortcuts from the admin account which have "Start in" pointing to the admin's FAH data folder (the installer changes permissions to allow 'user' Read and Write access to this one admin folder-not a good design)
To verify, I just test installed 7.6.9 on 2 virtual machines with fresh, vanilla OS installs, one with Win 7 Pro, and the other with Win10 Pro. I also did a test install on a Win10 Pro laptop. The issues are the same as my main machine. ALL FOUR machines display the same issues as described in the first post and as described by a number of commenters on this thread. All four work fine when FAH is installed as described in the first post of this thread (
viewtopic.php?f=106&t=33531#p319509).
(ateguartarix describes the problem in more detail here:
viewtopic.php?p=328736#p328736 )