Arduino IDE does only start if logged on as Administrator

Development Tools IDE 1.x
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Hello guys,

after a new installation of Win7 32 does the Arduino IDE only start if I am logged on as Administrator.

$ ./arduino.exe --l4j-debug
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
        at processing.app.I18n._(I18n.java:51)
        at processing.app.Base.getSettingsFolder(Base.java:1819)
        at processing.app.Base.getSettingsFile(Base.java:1836)
        at processing.app.Preferences.init(Preferences.java:273)
        at processing.app.Base.main(Base.java:127)

CmdLine:        H:\arduino-1.5.2\arduino.exe --l4j-debug
WOW64:          no
Working dir:    H:\arduino-1.5.2\.
Bundled JRE:    java
Check launcher: H:\arduino-1.5.2\java\bin\javaw.exe (OK)
Add classpath:  lib\pde.jar
Add classpath:  lib\core.jar
Add classpath:  lib\jna.jar
Add classpath:  lib\ecj.jar
Add classpath:  lib\RXTXcomm.jar
Add classpath:  lib\commons-exec-1.1.jar
Launcher:       H:\arduino-1.5.2\java\bin\javaw.exe
Launcher args:  -Xms128m -Xmx128m -classpath "lib;lib\pde.jar;lib\core.jar;lib\jna.jar;lib\ecj.jar;lib\RXTXcomm.jar;lib\commons-exec-1.1.jar" processing.app.Base
Args length:    145/32768 chars
Exit code:      1

I've checked the forum here but can't succeed

  • FACL checked
  • no Bluetooth
  • preferences checked / removed
  • driver checked
  • ...

If I'm logged on as Administrator the IDE starts up as succesfully.
It´s a Mega2560

Any Ideas?

Yours Sincerely
spoiler-kh

2

Any Ideas?

  1. add yourself to the admin group
  2. reinstall it and there might be an option to select [install for all users]

Don't know if (2) works as I always work as (1)

3

Of course, this would help. I tested it.
But I´m not lucky about this workaround, as my children are also using arduino and i don't want to give them admin- rights.

Arduino should run in a normal user context, and i'm sure it worked in den previsious win installation.