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Looks like it has to do with UAC. And it's been this way since Vista.

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It appears to be something with WIN-10 security.? Probably in the same way that VISTA cost millions of man hours as people had to fight the system and disable the default features.

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WIN-7 does not lose sight the P drive from a program run in administrator mode.? WIN-10 does.? For every program I tried so it's happening at the OS level. ?

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I've asked for help on the Altium Forum to find out if there's something that logs why the program might not start every time.? Very random.? Which is why I set it to administrator mode in the first place.? Not realizing that would break access to drive P:

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ben Kamen
Sent: April-03-21 10:39 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: WIN-VISTA-10 Was RE: [MachCNC] mach4

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On 4/3/21 5:06 PM, John Dammeyer wrote:

Every other program on that laptop can access the P drive.? A support group member suggested it's because I'm running Altium Designer in Administrator mode.? Pretty well have to do that because the shortcut on the desktop doesn't run at all if clicked and not set to Administrator.

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Running the application directly sometimes does run and then does have access to the P drive. ?

So it's now looking more like why this one application does not always run from the shortcut on the desktop. ?

Click.? Cursor turns to circular waiting icon for about 5 seconds and then changes back to arrow pointer.? No tasks left running as shown by task manager.

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Do that with Altium Designer on the WIN-7 desktop and it runs every time perfectly.

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The only other Windows OS that every had these types of problems was Vista.? WIN-7 has been rock solid for 10 years.

John

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Ohhh!

I've seen what you're talking about.

So the network share is mapped to P: -- and the laptop can see it and from, say, file explorer, you can traverse it -- but the program can't even see drive P:

Is it the only mapped network share on that laptop?

(I bet if you mapped more, they wouldn't show either)

I've seen this problem with Windows Apps where it's the *network shares* they fail to see - only local drives.

Very annoying indeed. I've never looked up the problem, but I know what you're talking about.

?-Ben