[eclipse-dev] How does Eclipse runtime make use of the Shell Folders/Des

[Cyrus Tsang <cyrustsang@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Eclipse-Dev,
  
I have a question regarding an Eclipse
based application and was wondering if someone could help.

The application is built on Eclipse
4.3.1 (64 bit), running on Windows server 2008 R2 (64 bit).

When I launch the application from an
administrative user account, it creates a folder C:\Users\%username%\Desktop.
This is because my registry key:

           
 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell
Folders\Desktop

has the value of:
       
           
C:\Users\%username%\Desktop

However, when I launch the application
from a non-administrative user account, I get the following error:
       
           
 Java was started by returned exit code=13
           
 -Xmx512M
           
 -Djava.class.path=C:\Program Files\Apps\MyApplication\plugins\org.eclipse.quinox.launcher_1.3.0.v20130327-1440.jar
           
 -os win32
           
 -ws win32
           
-arch x86
           
 -showsplash
           
 -launcher C:\Program Files\Apps\MyApplication\MyApp.exe
           
 -name MyApp
           
--launcher.library C:\Program Files\Apps\MyApplication\plugins\org.eclipse.quinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86_1.1.2--.v20130807-1835\eclipse_1503.dll
           
 -startup C:\Program Files\Apps\MyApplication\plugins\org.eclipse.quinox.launcher_1.3.0.v20130327-1440.jar
           
 --launcher.overrideVmargs
           
-vm C:\Program Files\Apps\MyApplication\\jre/jre/bin\j9vm\jvm.dll
           
 -vmargs
           
 -Xmx512M
           
 -Djava.class.path=C:\Program Files\Apps\MyApplication\plugins\org.eclipse.quinox.launcher_1.3.0.v20130327-1440.jar

       
This might be because the non-administrative
user do not have sufficient right to create the folder C:\Users\%username%\Desktop.
(But the non-administrative user should have sufficient right to write
to their own Desktop path??)

The application would start without
error if I hardcoded the value of the "Desktop" registry (i.e.
without the use of %username%, like so:

           
C:\Users\MyUserName\Desktop
      
I also noticed that if I deleted the
"Desktop" registry key, the application would start fine too.

I have checked folder permissions on
the C:\Users\MyUserName and C:\Users\MyUserName\Desktop, both of them have
"owner" permission level.

Given this, I was wondering if you could
provide some information about how the Eclipse runtime make use of the
"Desktop" registry key and why does it seem like the application
could only resolve the %username% variable as an administrative user? While
for the non-administrative user, the registry key has to be hardcoded?

Thank you all in advance.

Regards,

Cyrus Tsang
WebSphere MQ L3 Software Engineer

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