15 Oct 11, 11:20PM
Indeed, the "Access Denied" sounds very much like Windows - both Mac OS and Linux don't make such illogical restraints. You either know you have the permissions, or you know you don't - nothing half-baked.
Sadly there doesn't seem to be much information on this subject dealt with on the wiki .. but IIRC the trick on XP used to be to have a user called Administrator, to actually have System-Operator status. *sigh*
As a completely valid work-around you should be fine as soon as you pick a non-system-directory for installation *wink-wink* - e.g. C:\MyProgs, or better still D:\Whatever.
Sadly there doesn't seem to be much information on this subject dealt with on the wiki .. but IIRC the trick on XP used to be to have a user called Administrator, to actually have System-Operator status. *sigh*
As a completely valid work-around you should be fine as soon as you pick a non-system-directory for installation *wink-wink* - e.g. C:\MyProgs, or better still D:\Whatever.