Does not work for multiple Windows user accounts

nefarius / HidHide

Gaming Input Peripherals Device Firewall for Windows.

https://docs.nefarius.at/projects/HidHide/

MIT License

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Does not work for multiple Windows user accounts #56

Closed hensez closed 2 years ago

hensez commented 2 years ago

[x] I have searched open and closed issues for duplicates
[x] I am submitting a bug report for existing functionality that does not work as intended
[x] I have read https://vigem.org/Community-Support/
[x] This isn't a feature request or a discussion topic

Bug description

HidHide is unable to function in a situation where two people use the software on different user accounts.

Steps to reproduce

Install HidHide for User 1
User 2 is unable to launch the configuration utility
Reinstall for User 2
Installation is now broken for User 1

Actual result: Only one user is able to use HidHide on one PC. Expected result: Both users are able to use HidHide.

Machine info

CPU-Architecture: x86-64 Windows version: Windows 11 21H2 Software/driver version(s): 1.1.50

nefarius commented 2 years ago

There are still people with multiple user accounts? 😄 Jokes aside, what exactly is "broken"? The config client not launching? Is there an error message or just nothing happening? Blocking and whitelisting not working anymore too? Bit more info please 😘

hensez commented 2 years ago

I'm probably the only one, yeah. Yes, the config client does not start up. Says to check device manager for driver status, which seems to be ok (no yellow triangle or anything). Blocking and whitelisting are not working.

nefarius commented 2 years ago

Screenshot? Is it open on the other user account in parallel? Because only one instance on the whole machine is allowed to run simultaneously. That is intentional and can't be changed. Black and whitelisting are system-wide operations so that doesn't sound right being tied to user account.

Kanuan commented 2 years ago

Does the client ~~opens~~ functions as normal if explicitly run as admin on the other account? On my test I also couldn't open the HidHide Client from the 2nd user in the usual way (crashed when opening with a error message saying something went wrong), but it opens as normal if using the "run as administrator" option.

hensez commented 2 years ago

Interesting. After a complete reinstall it now works perfectly. I wonder what went wrong with the earlier reinstalls. I guess Windows needed a day to cool off.

nefarius commented 2 years ago

We still try to get to the bottom of this, the client app is a portable executable not tied to anything in the user profile so only thing I can think of is some incorrect file and folder permissions set by the setup on the install directory 🤔

nefarius commented 2 years ago

Can't reproduce.