[tex-live] TeX Live on Win10

[Siep Kroonenberg]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 08:06:40AM +0000, Lars Madsen wrote:
> 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.

Well, a backtrace is useful to us.

I did some testing on a W10 Pro VM, where I am not an admin, with
the wizard installer. I had
no trouble installing in c:\texlive. But when I selected "C:\Program
Files (x64)" then the installer complained, as it should, that it
could not install there. So in both cases the installer behaved as
intended.

The fact that your user could install ok as admin makes a timing
problem is less likely.

Has this laptop been acquired via the university? Then there might
be some nonstandard permissions.

The output of the command

icacls c:\

may tell us more about the permissions.

-- 
Siep Kroonenberg