Had the same issue. It was my anti-virus that was blocking it. Perhaps the same thing is happening to youI asked about it a while ago but was ignored, am i really the only one that gets the "Access to the path 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts' is denied." when launching the "GrowthLocalServer"? I think it's pretty weird i'm seemingly the only one with this problem.
The obvious suspicion would be that i'm not running it as admin but i can't even run it without admin privileges if i wanted to, it will only launch if i accept the privileges prompt, i even tried giving it full account access to no avail.
I don't have any special security software installed, looking at windows defender and firewall history it hasn't triggered anything.
Edit:
Guess i'm not the only one after all.