Your limited account is really limited and can't be bumped up to admin by
the menu 'run as administrator'. There may be an option for your account
that you could turn on that would enable the 'run as admin' but I am not
sure. If not, you will have to log on to a admin account to run pacman.
Or you could reinstall as a single user install in your home folder and
avoid the 'program files' problem entirely.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General forum" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 5:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] J602 available
"Sherlock, Ric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
This is the intended process. To bypass issues with the Virtual Store
in Vista, Pacman checks to see if it write access to
<JinstallDir>\bin. If not it won't run Package Manager. See the thread
<http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/beta/2008-February/003069.html>
Ric,
Thanks. It didn't solve my problem, but I understand a bit better.
I agree that would be nicer. I don't think it would be possible to use
Package Manager online, but it might be possible to open Package
Manager using the local catalog offline. That would let you check
which addons you have installed and what versions as well as access
the Info button etc.
Anything like that to see what I had, what versions I had, and what Info
had to say about them would be nice. It'd be even nicer if it would
also at least tell me which packages were out of date so I could decide
if it's worth becoming administrator (oh, for su or sudo).
I think you are using XP. In which case you should be able to run an
Explorer session or Command prompt as another (Admin) user and make
your changes. Start|All Programs|Accessories| Right click Windows
Explorer| Run as...
Good assumption.
I had high hopes you had the secret, but I've tried that. On my XP
system, right-clicking things in the Start menu (including exactly what
you suggested above) does not bring up any menu at all, let alone one
with a Run as... option.
Is it supposed to work as you describe in XP? If I had that ability, it
would help. Right now, I have to open Windows Explorer, navigate to
j.exe or whatever program I want to run, and then Run as .... That's
slow, and it's even slower with things such as Windows Explorer because
I suspect that's not in Program Files but somewhere in Windows that I'd
have to go find.
Thanks,
Bill
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