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Hello,

can you please attach a screenshot of kickstart and your directory listing?

The problem is caused by your browser autofill.
Once you open the page, your browser scans the page to see if it could autofill the form with saved info.
Since it finds a text field followed by a password one, it thinks this is a login form, and fills the saved info.
Of course the admin folder does not exist, leading to all the errors you just experienced.
Sadly there is no bullet-proof solution, we will try to implement some workarounds and mitigations; in the meanwhile the only thing you can do is to manually fill the directory AND the password fields manually, replacing their values.
Please note that you have to write the directory path using forward slashes instead of the backslash ones, in your case the path will be

D:/xampp/htdocs/gate

Please let me know if this works for you

The feature cannot be "improved". The problem is NOT in our software, it's in badly written password managers. This feature on ALL of my machines works just fine. Where my machines include:
* Android Lollipop phone (Sony Xperia Z3) with Google Chrome
* Android Lollipop tablet (Sony Xperia Z4) with Google Chrome and Firefox
* iPad Air 2 with Safari
* Mac OS X Yosemite with Safari; Google Chrome; Opera; Firefox
* Windows 7 with Chrome; IE 10; Firefox; Opera
* Windows 8.1 with Chrome; IE 10; Firefox; Opera
* Ubuntu Linux with Chrome; Chromium; Firefox; Opera
If you're wondering, yes, I have used Kickstart through ALL of these devices and browsers. The problem you report does not happen. However please note that I do NOT have many browser extensions installed. Notably, the only password manager I use is 1Password which only fills the fields I tell it to fill, when I tell it to fill them. The brief time I used LastPass I almost gave up on life because the damn thing would fill in any random field on any random page, driving me insane. If you're using LastPass please file a bug report with them, NOT us. We can't fix crappy password managers.

Adding a browse button is an overkill and will NOT fix this issue for the same reason that you have this issue right now: the browser autofill would still screw you.

Removing this feature is not an option. You must have surely observed that this feature was added a few months ago. There is a VERY good reason for this. You will see why in an upcoming version of Akeeba Backup. You can also already restore backups stored anywhere on your server WITHOUT having to download and upload them to a different directory. You may thing that's silly but it does save a few hours when you don't have access to your backend and the cPanel File Manager.