Installing Python 2.6 on Vista

[Fuzzyman]

On Nov 9, 6:23 pm, "Guilherme Polo" <ggp... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Fuzzyman <fuzzy... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello guys,
>
> > Not sure if this is a Windows question or a Python problem...
>
> > I'm trying to install Python 2.6 from the msi, on Windows Vista as an
> > administrative user with UAC on. If I try to install for all users
> > then I am told I don't have privileges to do that... (No UAC prompt.)
>
> > The only other user on the machine is the standard guest account, so
> > it isn't an issue, I just wondered why this would be?
>
> There is a "Vista note" inhttp://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/
>
> runas /user:Administrator "msiexec /i <path>\<file>.msi"

Heh. Well it would, except the administrator user doesn't have a
password (purely a VM) and this is unacceptable for runas. :-)

Michael

>
> Does that work for you ?
>
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