Installing Python 2.6 on Vista

Fuzzyman fuzzyman at gmail.com
Sun Nov 9 14:43:43 EST 2008


On Nov 9, 7:39 pm, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar... at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> > Heh. Well it would, except the administrator user doesn't have a
> > password (purely a VM) and this is unacceptable for runas. :-)
>
> There is, unfortunately, no other way to install Python 2.6 on Vista.
> So your choices are really:
> 1. activate the Administrator account
> 2. disable UAC
> 3. go back to XP
> 4. go back to Python 2.5
>
> Regards,
> Martin

It installs fine for 'just me', so no problem. I was just curious as
to why I couldn't install it for all users. Even for a VM I should
probably set an admin password.

Thanks

Michael
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