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I do not know much about that control panel but if you have xampp installed in program files, it's going to need admin to write to that ini file. Even the more unprotected parts of the hard drive Windows 8/10/Server 2012/2016 seem to be more particular than Vista/7/2008 were. You may just want to change permissions on the folder the control panel is stored in so at most a select group of users have more rights, of course you'll have to be admin to do that.

copy this and replace xampp-control.ini



[Common]
Edition=
Editor=notepad.exe
Browser=
Debug=0
Debuglevel=0
Language=en
TomcatVisible=1
Minimized=1

[LogSettings]
Font=Arial
FontSize=10

[WindowSettings]
Left=236
Top=73
Width=796
Height=629

[Autostart]
Apache=0
MySQL=0
Tomcat=0
FileZilla=0
Mercury=0

[Checks]
CheckRuntimes=1
CheckDefaultPorts=1

[ModuleNames]
Apache=Apache
MySQL=MySQL
Tomcat=Tomcat
FileZilla=FileZilla
Mercury=Mercury

[EnableModules]
Apache=1
MySQL=1
Tomcat=1
FileZilla=1
Mercury=1

[EnableServices]
Apache=1
MySQL=1
Tomcat=1
FileZilla=1

[BinaryNames]
Apache=httpd.exe
MySQL=mysqld.exe
Tomcat=tomcat7.exe
FileZilla=filezillaserver.exe
FileZillaAdmin=filezilla server interface.exe
Mercury=mercury.exe

[ServiceNames]
Apache=Apache2.4
MySQL=mysql
Tomcat=Tomcat7
FileZilla=FileZillaServer

[ServicePorts]
Apache=80
ApacheSSL=443
MySQL=3306
TomcatHTTP=8080
TomcatAJP=8009
Tomcat=8005
FileZilla=21
FileZillaAdmin=14147
Mercury1=25
Mercury2=79
Mercury3=105
Mercury4=106
Mercury5=110
Mercury6=143
Mercury7=2224

[UserConfigs]
Apache=
MySQL=
Tomcat=
FileZilla=
Mercury=

[UserLogs]
Apache=
MySQL=
Tomcat=
FileZilla=
Mercury=

Xampp-control.ini for some reasons become 'read only'. Just change it to 'full controll'.