Adobe Photoshop CC 2014 Crash on start-up when run as non Admin

Question

Hi All
Having an issue with Photoshop when run as a non administrator on domain PC's.
The program crashes as soon as it loads up with the following in the event log :
Faulting application name: Photoshop.exe, version: 15.1.0.148, time stamp: 0x53d97a8f
Faulting module name: Photoshop.exe, version: 15.1.0.148, time stamp: 0x53d97a8f
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000000000161ea23
Faulting process id: 0xdcc
Faulting application start time: 0x01cfce7cd3686a3f
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC 2014\Photoshop.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC 2014\Photoshop.exe
Report Id: 1376e820-3a70-11e4-8f81-3417eba365e0
I don't beleive its hardware related as the same issue occurs on multiple types of hardware in multiple suites and will run fine with an administrator.
In our setup most users on the domain are non admin as well as students so its not really a poisibility to give all users of photoshop admin rights
Any help would be greatly appreciated

Answer 1

We are seeing this issue as well, except Photoshop CC 2014 is trying to write into C:\Shortcuts, which is the location we redirect our desktops and start menus too.
So far the only work around has been to use group policy to deploy the log file to the location Photoshop is trying to write to and set permission so all users can write to it.
I've opened a support case with Adobe (Case number: 185963856 ) however their initial response is pathetic...."We may not consider this a bug" and they sent me the locations below which "need" read/write access, which is not true and not helpful!
%temp%
C:\Program Files\Adobe*
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe*
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Macrovision Shared
C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe*
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe*
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Macrovision Shared
C:\ProgramData\Adobe*
C:\ProgramData\FLEXnet
C:\Users\<user_name>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe*
C:\Users\<user_name>\AppData\Roaming\com.adobe.*
C:\Users\<user_name>\AppData\Local\Adobe*
C:\Users\<user_name>\AppData\LocalLow\Adobe*
C:\Users\<user_name>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe*
~ Registry Keys ~
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Adobe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Macromedia
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Macromedia
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Macromedia
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VirtualStore\Machine\Software\Adobe*
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Adobe*