I have recently tried using FeePCB on a Windows XP professional PC (before that I ran it using wine under Linux). Using it as a regular user (not admin) has problems. FreePCB defaults to creating all projects in C:\ProgramFiles\FreePCB\Projects but of course a regular user is not allowed to create files in this directory. Unfortunately, the Project Options dialog does not allow you to browse to another directory to create the project, instead you have to type the complete path in by hand which is somewhat tedious when it is something like:
C:\Documents and Settings\UsrName\My Documents\MyPCBs
Similarly, when I create a new footprint, I cannot store it in the default location (for the same reason as before) but at least this time the dialog does allow you to browse to an alternate directory. Then, when you want to select parts from the standard and your own libraries, you have to waste time navigating to each one.
So, I can get round these problems but they are a bit of a pain. I could solve them by setting up an admin account but I should not have to do that. I am sorely tempted to copy the standard libraries to my own lib directory and select everything from there.;
What does everyone else do?
Cheers
Ian