Installation on Vista (Was: ANN: ActivePython 2.6.0.0 is now available)

[Mensanator]

On Nov 17, 7:58 pm, Mensanator <mensana... at aol.com> wrote:
> On Nov 17, 7:24 pm, Steve Holden <st... at holdenweb.com> wrote:
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> > Mensanator wrote:
> > > On Nov 17, 6:26 pm, Steve Holden <st... at holdenweb.com> wrote:
> > >> Mensanator wrote:
> > >>> On Nov 17, 5:44 pm, Steve Holden <st... at holdenweb.com> wrote:
> > >>>> Trent Mick wrote:
> > >>>>> Mensanator wrote:
> > >>>>>>>> What about Vista? Do you need to use the Administrator account to
> > >>>>>>>> install it?
> > >>>>>>> My currently understanding is that the ActivePython installer will
> > >>>>>>> prompt for administrator privileges if required. I know that if the
> > >>>>>>> current user is a member of the administrators *group* (different from
> > >>>>>>> being the "Administrator" *user*), that this is sufficient to install
> > >>>>>>> and use ActivePython.
> > >>>>>> I'll have to try that, as it is NOT the case with the Windows
> > >>>>>> installer
> > >>>>>> from Python.org. Admin privelleges are NOT sufficient if you want IDLE
> > >>>>>> to work. You have to use the Administrator account (which is disabled
> > >>>>>> by default on Vista). If you have a way around that, then great.
> > >>>>> I believe that IDLE ran just fine when installed as a user in the admin
> > >>>>> group.
> > >>>> I found the only satisfactory way to install Python all-users on Vista
> > >>>> was to log in as a member of the administrators group, run a command
> > >>>> shell window "as administrator", then run the installer in that window.
> > >>> Didn't you have to enable the Administrator account (which is disabled
> > >>> by default in Vista)?
> > >> Nope. The Administrator account still shows up as disabled.
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> > > Strange, I had to. Had you enebled it previously and assinged a
> > > password?
> > > I couldn't use a "runas" command without a password. I never tried the
> > > Administrator-Disabled/Password-Assigned combination, only
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> > > Administrator-Disabled/Password-Unassigned
> > > Administrator-Enabled/Password-Unassigned
> > > Administrator-Enabled/Password-Assigned
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> > > the last of which worked.
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> > > Or did you do something else, like turn off UAC?
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> > Nope. I have, to the best of my knowledge, never touched the
> > Administrator account, and I still have UAC turned on. This is Vista
> > Business, which could (I suppose) make a difference.
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> Well, mine is the home version. I'll try the ActivePython version
> first as a regular user and see what happens.

Is this the right version? I think my prior install was 2.6b1 but I
stupidly
forgot to check before installing the ActiveState version.

Python 2.6rc1 (r26rc1:66438, Sep 13 2008, 09:20:38) [MSC v.1500 32 bit
(Intel)] on win32
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If so, I had no problem installing it on Vista as an administrator
group
member, no need to invoke Administrator.

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