[tex-live] TeX Live on Win10

[Lars Madsen]

Hi Siep, I've got the screen dump from the user (attached, I've removed his name)

He is on 

Win 10 home version 1511.

I've asked him to test making a folder in c:\ and describe what happens.

Maybe it should catch the error better and give the user an error message, I think a lot of normal users get scared by a back trace like that.


/Lars Madsen
Institut for Matematik / Department of Mathematics
Aarhus Universitet / Aarhus University
Mere info: http://au.dk/daleif@math / More information: http://au.dk/en/daleif@math


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From: tex-live <tex-live-bounces at tug.org> on behalf of Siep Kroonenberg <siepo at cybercomm.nl>
Sent: 25 April 2016 20:36
To: tex-live at tug.org
Subject: Re: [tex-live] TeX Live on Win10

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 05:28:57PM +0000, Lars Madsen wrote:
> We did not try creating it manually, once we got the error we just ran the installer as admin
>
> I thought you meant that running the installer as normal user should have prompted a uac

No. As I wrote earlier, a normal user should be able to create
c:\texlive without a UAC prompt. As I wrote before, sometimes
Windows appears to need time to realize what it has done.

But before adding a delay, I would like some confirmation that that
was the problem, and not something else.

--
Siep Kroonenberg
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