Installing Python 2.6 on Vista

Guilherme Polo ggpolo at gmail.com
Sun Nov 9 13:23:20 EST 2008


On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Fuzzyman <fuzzyman 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" in http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/

runas /user:Administrator "msiexec /i <path>\<file>.msi"

Does that work for you ?

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