NWDS stands for SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio. It is an extended version of the famous Eclipse aimed to help developing applications to run on SAP NetWeaver platform under Java stack. Anyway, it assumes that you installed and ran the NWDS on your personal computer. In other words, you should be the Administrator or is in Administrators group. As a result, you may not be able to run NWDS if you are not in either case.

There are 2 approaches to let normal user to run NWDS.

1. Let them be in Power Users group.

2. Let them have full control in below directories.

   • C:\Documents and Settings\All Users
   • C:\Program Files\SAP\IDE\IDE70\eclipse

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