“Launch the Farm Configuration Wizard” link missing for Farm Admin

Question

I have two service accounts as below.

Setup - This is part of local admin and I used this to install SharePoint
Farm - This is my farm administrator and it is not part of local admin

When I log in as "Setup" then I can see the link "Launch the Farm Configuration Wizard" under "Farm Configuration" but when I log in as "Farm" then I don't see the link. Why?

Answer 1

Start Central Administration as Administrator (right-click -> Run as Administrator)

Not sure why this will help, but it has something to do with how Central Admin trims some links depending on if the IE process is running as local admin or not