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Thanks, @aka_daryl. If you want to share what you come up with, I'm sure there would be people here who would benefit from it.

toTOW wrote:It's still possible to do a dirty manual installation ...

How does one go about that? Extract all the files, stuff them somewhere conveneient and run the binaries manually and hope for the best?

Good find. I wonder if it's an issue of %APP_DATA% being evaluated at the wrong time. Looks like it's getting evaluated at install time instead of runtime. I don't speak Windows scripting, but in the Unix world it would be a matter of escaping the % marks.

One has to think this is a solved problem in the Windows installer world, no?

Unfortunately, it doesn't look like the current installer works with windows and a non-admin account. When you supply an admin account to install, the installer runs as the admin user, so it's %APPDATA% becomes theirs, not the logged in users. You can manually change the data directory, but it look...

Okay, after a reboot, it no longer starts nor can I seem to run it. There's no start menu entry. If I go to the program install dir and run it, I get the old "cannot access" type of errors.

Suggestions?

That did it. Literally the only different is selecting the automatic config instead of the manual--even when changing no settings on the manual.

I will check that. Thank you for the suggestion.

I am in this same situation. I am a returning F@H contributer and I'm installing onto a new machine. Also Win10 with a non-admin user account. Installing as the user, but it picks a directory in the admin's account for data. Even if I change that to my user during the install process, it doesn't not...