After Effects CS4 error

I installed after effects CS4 on the school pc, it works fine until I login into student user login and when i open up after effects it comes up with this error.
"Adobe effects error:finding preferences folder - no such directory (-120)"
I search in google and i still can't find any solution for this issue, please help.
I also provides a screeshoot for more info.

Ask your system administrator. It's perfectly possible to use a different location for your local user account data by modifying those settings with the group policy editor or by manually changing the paths in the registry. However, these things still need to be persistent, so just pointing it to your server-based profile or whatever you may be using will not be sufficient. Indeed either the specific directory must be explicitly set to have full permissions by decoupling iot from the inheritance rules of the global permissions or, again by ways of the group policy editor, your user group outfitted with the respective permissions. Of course the simplest option would be to instate yourself as a Power User, so you have default permission to view system directories and may modify files.
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