On 11/25/21 11:00, Chris Angelico wrote:
Can someone confirm that it's still possible to run the Python installer without admin rights, for a per-user installation? It always used to be possible, but I haven't checked.
You only need admin rights for some special cases. While Win7 was still supported, you needed to run the (included) installer for vcredist of a different version than the one that comes with Win7, and that needed admin rights (unfortunately, the Python installer didn't prompt for that and so the vcredist install failed silently, leaving a broken install if you didn't already have it from other means - but that's all in the past now). It's possible you also need it for the Python Launcher, since that goes into a "system location" (not sure about that one). And if you asked for an install for "all users" that requires admin rights.
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