Gnucash 2.6.3 suddenly needs to "Run As Admin" on Win 8.1 AND New Modified Transaction Report

[Dave H]

Is there a way of dropping the updated Transaction Report  (
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=727617 ) into the existing
standard-reports folder and giving it another name such as Transaction
Report (New) or similar or do I just have to wait for a new version that
includes it ?

I'm running GmuCash 2.6.3 on Win 8.1 and tried copying the existing
transaction report in C:\Program Files
(x86)\gnucash\share\gnucash\guile-modules\gnucash\report\standard-reports
as xtransaction.scm as an initial step to see if Gnucash would pick up a
new report by just dropping one into the standard-reports folder.

I forgot all about changing the report guid which I've seen mentioned at
various times so when I ran gnucash after doing this it flashed the splash
screen and then up a dialog box about duplicate reports and shutdown when I
clicked on it from memory.

Now after this gnucash won't startup correctly - it displays the splash
screen and the messages on the bottom of the splash screen get as far as
loading standard reports but then it just closes and no gnucash.

I have tried uninstalling and re-installing 2.6.3, dropped back to 2.6.2
and 2.4.15 with the same issue, however I think from memory that doing the
uninstall using the windows installer doesn't actually remove everything
such as guile/gconf/etc so maybe that's the issue ?

Eventually I re-installed 2.6.3 and updated the properties to "Run As
Administrator" which is a bit strange as it doesn't need this on the other
2 pc's I run gnucash on and I'm an admin on all 3 pc's.

Also gnucash no longer seems to use my preferences that I had set up and
was synching with a couple of other pc's - presumably as it's now running
as administrator.  I had updated the environment file in C:\Program Files
(x86)\gnucash\etc\gnucash to add the HOME={APPDATA}/GnuCash line to it so
it would use my preferences etc in
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\GnuCash as per the bugzilla suggestion
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=503722

So if there are any users/devs out there with an inkling of why gnucash
would suddenly insist on running as administrator and how I can resolve it
I'm open to suggestions - all ideas gratefully received :-)

Thanks, Dave H.