Ok so at least the debug makes a little more sense but it's still not working without running it as administrator:
Spoiler:
calibre-debug -g
calibre 2.0 [64bit] isfrozen: True is64bit: True
Windows-8-6.2.9200 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '8', '6.2.9200')
Python 2.7.8
Windows: ('8', '6.2.9200', '', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Successfully initialized third party plugins: Goodreads
Python function terminated unexpectedly
[Error 5] Access is denied (Error Code: 1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site.py", line 132, in main
File "site.py", line 109, in run_entry_point
File "site-packages\calibre\debug.py", line 217, in main
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\main.py", line 448, in main
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\main.py", line 430, in create_listener
File "multiprocessing\connection.py", line 130, in __init__
File "multiprocessing\connection.py", line 338, in __init__
WindowsError: [Error 5] Access is denied