GnuCash 2.2.0 under Windows (problems -- much more information)

[Mike or Penny Novack]

Thanks to Vahur describing exactly what he was running.

While I had done some minimal testing while logged in as administrator I 
had not set up a FULL parallel to the user environment. I went back and 
retested after first copying over (to the admin data area) a directory 
containing a valid set of books. Under these conditions I had no 
difficulty using "edit preferences" to do things like turning off "tips 
of the day", turning off the "splash screen" so open directly in that 
set of books, changing the period for "autosave", etc. Went back into my 
user login and tried the same things, no dice.

I have not verified yet if this is a permissions problem per se (what 
happens if I temporarily give the user "admin" privilege) -- it could 
also be a consequence of the user not having "admin" rights the first 
time gnucash was opened (perhaps some directories/files were never 
created). I have to experiment, can't just look, as I am not really a 
"Windows person".

It is from my perspective a serious problem (not greatly affecting my 
PERSONAL use -- but could I report "ready" for running under Windows?). 
It also explains WHY possibly not previously reported. An extremely high 
percentage of home XP users consider that because they are the only user 
on the computer, why not be with "admin" rights all the time. Entirely 
possible that no beta testing was done under XP without "admin" rights 
(and as already noted, this might be a situation where if the first time 
was with "admin" rights, could then subsequently use the app as "user" 
without problems.

Michael

PS:  I'll soon be busy for a few days and so may not be able to report 
on some of these further tests till next week. Since I already used 
gnucash in my (our) user login, I'll need to set up a temporary "test" 
user on the system to check on the "first time" possibilities.


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