Pathdef problem after changing account

Hi, I recently bought a laptop with windows 8 and I installed Matlab R2014a. After updating to windows 8.1 I created a new user account and deleted the old one because I had some problems. But now when I run Matlab I get the following messages in the command window. How can I fix this? Thank you.

C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2014a\toolbox\local\pathdef.m: Cannot open file: permission denied.

Warning: MATLAB did not appear to successfully set the search path. To recover for this session of MATLAB, type "restoredefaultpath;matlabrc". To find out how to avoid this warning the next time you start MATLAB, type "docsearch problem path" after recovering for this session.

Warning: Duplicate directory name: C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2014a\toolbox\local

Warning: Initializing Handle Graphics failed in matlabrc. This indicates a potentially serious problem in your MATLAB setup, which should be resolved as soon as possible. Error detected was: MATLAB:undefinedVarOrClass

Undefined variable "graphics" or class "graphics.internal.initializeMATLABRoot".

Warning: Initializing Java preferences failed in matlabrc. This indicates a potentially serious problem in your MATLAB setup, which should be resolved as soon as possible. Error detected was: MATLAB:UndefinedFunction

Undefined function 'usejava' for input arguments of type 'char'.

> In matlabrc at 110

Warning: Failed to add default profiler filters.

> In matlabrc at 149

Answer 1

[Adam]

Have you tried running as administrator?

[Francesco]

If I run as administrator, it seems to be ok. But I wonder why I have those problems when I run it normally, since it was ok when I used the old account (both accounts are administrators). Also, I can't find the startup.m file anywhere.

[Adam]

Different versions of Windows seem to have had different requirements with respect to needing administrator privileges to run certain programs. I'm not really familiar with what these are, but I seem to remember some version where I had to always run Matlab as an administrator in order to save my path variable.

startup.m does not exist unless you create it yourself.