GAM hangs unless run from elevated session

[Charles Patton]

My colleague set up GAM for shared use on a VM my team can access. When launching gam from a non-elevated cmd prompt, it hangs forever. From an elevated prompt, it runs fine. In an attempt to fix this, I copied the GAM7, GAMConfig, and GAMWork dirs from C:\ to C:\ProgramaData and updated the PATH and GAMCFG system-level environment vars. Now I'm able to run gam from non-elevated prompt, but other users must elevate. Effective Access audit shows that all users have access to those files, but I'm wondering if there might be some other resource (like a registry path) that they can't access.

TL;DR what is required for multiple users to run GAM on the same Windows system?

[Charles Patton]

After some troubleshooting, I found that granting Modify to Authenticated Users for all GAM folders resolved the issue.