ASTAP installation on Win10 - Administrator required?

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ASTAP installation on Win10 - Administrator required?

Forum: General discussions ASTAP

Creator: Ludwig Krijgshaftig

Created: 2020-09-22

Updated: 2020-09-22

Ludwig Krijgshaftig - 2020-09-22

When opening ASTAP with my regular Win10 user credentials the application window does not appear. It stays minimized in the taskbar without any further information. Only when I launch ASTAP as Administrator it works as normal. This was not the case with previous versions of ASTAP (just installed 0.9.420) as far as I can remember. Will also test on other Win10 computers. Is this a known issue with a known solution? I prefer not to use Windows with Administrator credentials (unless installing new software).

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han.k - 2020-09-22

Hello Ludwig,

That is strange. I just created a local account in Win10 and it runs normal.

Maybe the astap.cfg file is corrupt. For the local account ASTAP will save the settings file astap.cfg at:

C:\Users\guest2\AppData\Local\astap\astap.cfg

Where guest2 should be changed to you local name.

or alternatively type in explorer

%LocalAppData%\ASTAP

Then delete the configuration file astap.cfg and try again.

Han

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Ludwig Krijgshaftig - 2020-09-22

Hi Han,

Thanks for the quick reply. Just tested your suggestion. That did indeed resolve the issue. All OK now.

Regards,
Ludwig

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