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Newfangled Mill Wizard / Re: Install issue
« on: March 14, 2013, 09:59:18 AM »
OK, it's all coming back to me. The installer WON'T run in an administrator Windows 7 account. You get the error about opening NFS_Mill.exe, the screenie I posted at the start of this thread, reply #2. So the ONLY apparent choice is Run as Administrator which likely starts the dilemna. Once the installer is run with Run as Administrator, it'll act differently and put files different places, maybe? But either way, no apparent choice of how to run it on Windows 7 other than Run as Administrator. And........that doesn't seem to comply with Microsoft's rules.......most installers don't require being run as administrator.
When the installer is Run as Administrator, it puts the exe stuff in C:\Program Files(x86), probably right, but it puts it's other files in C:\Users\username\Wizards|Mill. Then when you try to run the program, it can't find the files because it's looking in Documents. To compound this, I always move my My Documents to a different drive (a newfangled small SSD as boot drive thing!), so it really can't find it!! This is all documented with screenshots and explanation at the beginning of this thread. Same issue right now installing anew on this laptop.
I know........install a nice clean version of Windows XP, where an administrator account is a 'real' administrator account, and quit whining Sadly, most of us have moved on, me among them.
When the installer is Run as Administrator, it puts the exe stuff in C:\Program Files(x86), probably right, but it puts it's other files in C:\Users\username\Wizards|Mill. Then when you try to run the program, it can't find the files because it's looking in Documents. To compound this, I always move my My Documents to a different drive (a newfangled small SSD as boot drive thing!), so it really can't find it!! This is all documented with screenshots and explanation at the beginning of this thread. Same issue right now installing anew on this laptop.
I know........install a nice clean version of Windows XP, where an administrator account is a 'real' administrator account, and quit whining Sadly, most of us have moved on, me among them.