On 10/07/13 17:10, larry seibold wrote:
this, as it must be the case with almost everyone, with similar issues
with later windows releases. Here is what I found out.
Even though I had administrator rights (my user was in the administrator
group) on the windows XP machine, I was not the "Administrator" user.
I've installed Python on many Windows boxes and never had to be
Adminisatrator nor even in the Admin group. (I am usually a
PowerUser though.)
What I chose to try that worked, was to start a command shell with the
"runas administrator" feature. From there I changed to the directory
where the python msi was downloaded, and then ran the install program.
from Start --> Search programs and files:
runas /user:domain/adminusername "msiexec /i msiname.msi"
And I've never had to do anything but double click the msi file and the
installer has run just fine.
All very odd. Glad you got it installed though.
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Alan G
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
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