Hi,
Thanks for listing all the problems.
We are testing a new installer for Windows now. It's written from scratch (we 
switched from InstallShield to WiX) and if we don't find any issues with it 
we'll put it on ftp tomorrow.

ActiveTcl should not be necessary with this and future versions. In September 
we updated our build of Tcl and friends and it seems to work well with ccp4i 
and imosflm. We'll remove the recommendation of ActiveTcl from the website soon.

Cheers
Marcin


-----Original Message-----
From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Robert 
Oeffner
Sent: 08 November 2011 12:27
To: ccp4bb
Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Installation of CCP4 under Windows 7

Hi,
I have encountered this problem with CCP4 6.2.0 as well as for the past few 
years. Whenever I run the CCP4 installer "for all users" on my Windows Vista PC 
as administrator it only creates desktop icons and startup menu item for the 
administrator account, not for other users. 

It appears that the CCP4 desktop icon shortcut is put in 
C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop and the start menu CCP4 folder is put in 
C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start 
Menu\Programs\CCP4-Packages-6.2.0. Both of these paths are incorrect as they 
are invisible when logging in as another user.

I'm not sure where the CCP4 desktop icon shortcut should go but placing the 
startup folder in C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs makes it 
accessible to other users.

On a separate note, it also appears that there is a bug in the ActiveTCL 
installer which is recommended to be installed on Vista platforms. It only 
makes file associations with tcl files for the user who installed this program. 
Consequently when double clicking the CCP4 icon as a different user than 
administrator windows prompts the user asking what program the  file should be 
opened with. Again this can be overcome by making the wish.exe program from the 
ActiveTcl folder the default program to use.


Regards,

Robert Oeffner, Ph.D.
Research Associate, Read group
Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge
Cambridge Institute of Medical Research
Wellcome Trust / MRC Building, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0XY
www-structmed.cimr.cam.ac.uk, tel:01223763234

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