Can't run Dropbox unless it has administrator rights

[Sammy G.]

Windows 7 64bit
For some reason dropbox doesn't start with startup anymore because it needs administrator rights to start. If I try running the app normally without administrator rights, nothing happens, I see the cursor change to waiting for a few secs and then nothing. But if I right click and "run as administrator" it runs fine. This means dropbox can't run on startup. Any reason for this?

Should also mention that my account is an admin account.

[Greg K.21]

I have the same problem and it is coming not from dropbox but from windows. I have other applications (MATLAB) that stopped working unless you run them as administrator. The reason is that something changed the access privileges to C:\Users\"your user name"\AppData\Local\Temp. I understand that this directory is used by many applications including dropbox. Unfortunately I was not able to change user rights (windows does not let me) and continue to run dropbox and MATLAB as administrator.

[John1]

Thanks Greg! In my case some other application messed up permissions on the Temp folder, but I was able to fix them easily (I was logged on account with admin privileges though).

[sfantudoodle_x]

What solved this problem for me (not saying is going to to it for everybody else) was to delete everything in C:\Users\"your user name"\AppData\Local\Temp folder. There were 3 or 4 files starting with dropbox..... (can't remember the exact names) which I couldn't delete only after restarting windows in Safe Mode. So, I deleted everything in Temp folder while in Safe Mode, rebooted normally and voila, dropbox started after logon on it's own. Cheers!

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