I've made it a habit to install sensitive and/or
old software to something like
*D:\Program Files (non-sys)\...*
in order to steer away from Windows rights and automatisms.
-M
At 2020-05-03 16:17, you wrote:
I point the users to the installation
page. Can you give me a sentence to add to my
instructions so they won't encounter this
problem? Henry Rich On 5/3/2020 12:15 PM, Norman
Drinkwater wrote: > If they are an administrator
on the computer, they can use the all-in-one >
installer to install for all users. Then J runs
with admin rights and > pacman will work fine.
If they aren't an administrator, they can only >
install as a user. The current behavior conforms
to windows guidelines, > though I understand
that it's inconvenient. > > On Sun, May 3, 2020
at 10:33 AM Henry Rich <[email protected]>
wrote: > >> I have a J application, distributed
as a Addon. When it starts, it runs >> Pacman
to check for updates. >> >> A couple of users
report that the catalog is read-only and thus
they >> can't run Pacman without administrative
rights. As they are Windows >> users, this
means that they have to Run as Administrator.
This is >> undesirable. >> >> Does anyone know
what causes this state of affairs? Is it
something in >> the way they installed J, or how
they have their Windows system set up? >> I
don't think it's an antivirus issue. >> >> And
is there a workaround for them to give J the
rights to manage its >> stuff? >> >> Henry
Rich >> >> -- >> This email has been checked for
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