Installation to wrong user account

[lumpy]

When I installed FAH, from my Windows 10 user account, it said it installed fine, it started up after installation and completed a couple units. It didn't create a shortcut on my desktop, but I thought maybe I had selected that as an option. When I restarted the computer the next day, FAH did not start, and when I looked through the start menu it wasn't there. I logged into the administrator account and there was the desktop icon, and FAH started automatically. I deinstalled it, logged out of the administrator account, logged back into my user account, reinstalled and got the same result. This is with client 7.5.1

Here's what I saw when I did the second installation.
First I got a Windows popup window asking for administrator privilege to install; I clicked yes.
I selected custom or advanced install. It installed the program to the default directory, but for the data it selected the administrator account. I manually changed that to the non-administrator account and finished the installation. I got the same result as the first time, meaning it started up immediately after installation, but when I restarted the computer it was only there for the administrator account.

FAH 7.5.1
Windows 10
I5 6400
GTX 1060

[bruce]

FAH runs on a single account ... whichever is logged on during the install. As you discovered, Installing FAH on the Administrator account is not a useful process unless you always run your computer on that account (and I hope you don't).

After removing it, you installed it a second time and it asked you for install permissions. This is the expected way to do it correctly. That would NOT install it under the admin account, although your previous installation might not have been completely uninstalled. FAH installs using two directories. One directory is in one of the program directories where windows puts ALL software. That is independent of who does the installation. It also creates a working directory where it puts it's work files and where it puts your personal configuration files. That should depend ONLY on what user is logged on. ... and by Microsoft's standards, it's a hidden directory. All programs are supposed to use this site for their working files. (Actually, there's a third directory where it puts the shortcut which is assumed to be used to start the client)

If you fail to use the shortcut or if you changed things manually, you've created a non-standard installation and you're responsible for keeping everything straight. I recommend you uninstall again, logon as yourself, and reinstall. Either allow FAH to start automatically or use the shortcut provided to start it manually.

Since the hidden working directory for the admin user is in a different location than the hidden working directory for your regular user, you may not have installed both of them.

[lumpy]

You misread my message. I installed each time while NOT logged into my admin account.

Just to make sure, I deinstalled again, rebooted into my user (non-admin) account, and reinstalled without making any changes to the install options. I got the exact same result described in my original post.

I did not make any manual changes.

[bruce]

How are you determining to which account FAH has been installed?

Post the log which is found in %APPDATA%\fahclient per the instructions referenced from the signature block of my previous post. The environment variable %APPDATA% points to a hidden directory belonging to the user who was logged on during the installation and which must be used when running FAHClient. Note: As an environmental variable, %APPDATA% changes depending on who is logged on.

If you previously created data files while logged on as administrator, there may be other copies of the applicable files but they will NOT be referenced when you start FAHClient automatically from your non-admin user or by using the shortcut belonging to that user. If you're trying to start FAHClient by opening the executable file FAHClient.exe found in the windows directory, you are NOT using the shortcut provided by FAH and it will not run because you have not opened the proper work directory. Microsoft prohibits Work files from being created in the Windows directory as part of their anti-virus protection policies.

[lumpy]

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[lumpy]

The account "usr" is the admin account.

I don't ever start FAH manually. It starts automatically if I sign in to my admin account (which I rarely do)

The latest installation selected \usr\AppData for data even though it's the admin account, and I was not signed in to the admin account.

I also tried to install on a different computer as a test to see if it's something strange with this computer. I selected the custom install option and the data directory it selected on the second computer was the admin account user directory. I cancelled the installation on that computer at that point.

[bruce]

lOpen the Console text window (aka "command prompt") and type echo %APPDATA%. What does it say? Now log on to the other WINDOWS account and repeat those steps.

Where did you download this version of FAH's software and which version is it that you're installing?

Are you installing as a Windows service?

[lumpy]

Logged into my non-admin account "bik"
>echo %APPDATA%
C:\Users\bik\AppData\Roaming

When logged into my admin account I get:
C:\Users\usr\AppData\Roaming

I downloaded the Windows installer from the Foldingathome.org website, filename:
fah-installer_7.5.1_x86.exe

I don't understand the windows as a service question. I just tried to do a plain, default installation.

[bruce]

So please confirm that you removed the files in User/usr/Appdata/roaming/fahclientwere have been removed and that the installation while logged on as bik recreats files in one of the two places. They should be created in /user/bik/Appdata/roaming/fahclient

[lumpy]

I deinstalled again, then confirmed that the directory:
user/usr/Appdata/roaming/fahclient
was removed and also that there was no fahclient directory for user/bik

I reinstalled with the same results:

I logged out of the admin account (usr), and while logged into the non-admin account (bik), installed FAH again.
As before it installed the appdata under the admin username (usr).
user/usr/appdata/roaming/fahclient has a timestamp matching when I just installed FAH.
There is still no fahclient folder under the corresponding bik directory.

[bruce]

And at the time you did that FAH installation, what was the value of %APPDATA%?

[lumpy]

I did a quick deinstall, reboot, reinstall to verify

I checked via command prompt before install
>echo %APPDATA%
C:|Users\bik\AppData\Roaming (bik is the non-admin account)

During the installation it selected
C:|Users\usr\AppData\Roaming for the data location (usr is the admin account)

After installation I checked again:
>echo %APPDATA%
C:|Users\bik\AppData\Roaming

[bruce]

Strange. Apparently it has changed in the latest version. I don't remember testing this feature during client beta testing.

The fundamental question, though, is whether the properties of the shortcut match the properties of the installation.

You say there is no shortcut. That would cause a problem. How are you starting FAHClient from "blk"? Does it work?

[lumpy]

I cannot start it from bik. It will start automatically if I log into my admin account, but since I don't want to do that on a regular basis it's not running at all. There is a shortcut if I log into the admin account.

[bruce]

I understand your concern. I need to do some additional research.