Installation as a non-administrator is faulty

GlassWire General
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I installed the b25 as a normal user (since I don’t run as Administrator in W8.1). I was prompted, as normal, for the admin account and password while installing and now as the non-admin user I can’t find the app.

I just checked by logging as the admin account that it is visible there, but as the normal user I can’t see it. Obviously it is being installed for the single user who installed it (i.e. the Admin), and not for “All users”.

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Thanks for your report. We’ll try to recreate this problem on our end and fix it.

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Same for me.

Thanks for an awesome application btw

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I installed it as admin and loged in as the other user and made a shortcut from the glasswire.exe to my autostart.

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This issues still exists.

GlassWire frontend doesn’t run on non-administrator accounts even if installed to that account with administrator permission. The GlassWire services are there and running but no GUI interface at startup.

If it is a deliberate design decision not to provide access for non-administrator accounts then I should not be able to run the frontend but I can. it will autostart in non administrator accounts by manually moving a shortcut to the %programdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup folder.

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Thanks. I will investigate.

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@remah and @jodyfanning I’ll send you both a new version of GlassWire that should fix this bug. Thanks for your reports.

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@Ken_GlassWire took me a while to check, but the package you sent worked as expected.

I could install it from my normal User account (by giving admin user/password) and it both ran normally from the User and also appears in the list of apps from the same account.

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