> 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