Is this a 'feature' of vista

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I bought and downloaded a copy of acronis true image 10 yesterday. I
used my vista machine to do this and then copied the file to an external
usb disk and transferred it to the pc it was intended for. When running
the install on this machine I get the error that you may not have enough
rights etc and it fails (xp pro machine logged in as admin)
I tried the download twice in case of corruption and got the same thing.
Next I downloaded the file again directly to the xp pc and install ran
fine.
If this is vista getting in the way I'm not too impressed (just to add
to all the other things I'm not impressed with)
thanks
 
With certain programs (and more likely with some setups) in Vista, you may
have to right click the file and choose "Run as administrator". That is not
the same as being 'logged in' as part of the Administrator Group. Try this.
 
Max said:
With certain programs (and more likely with some setups) in Vista, you
may have to right click the file and choose "Run as administrator". That
is not the same as being 'logged in' as part of the Administrator Group.
Try this.
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He said he downloaded the app in Vista, but executed it in XP.

I suspect his problem was that if they're sharing NTFS partitions, then
the file permissions on the file were such that the XP user couldn't
access it.

David
 
Ah...you are correct. I misread the part about 'from this machine to that
machine to this machine', and got it backwards. Read it too fast, probably.
In that case (for XP Pro), of course, the file can be right clicked,
Properties, Security, edit permissions and take Ownership.
Have had to do this a few times myself.
 
simon said:
I bought and downloaded a copy of acronis true image 10 yesterday. I used
my vista machine to do this and then copied the file to an external usb
disk and transferred it to the pc it was intended for. When running the
install on this machine I get the error that you may not have enough rights
etc and it fails (xp pro machine logged in as admin)
I tried the download twice in case of corruption and got the same thing.
Next I downloaded the file again directly to the xp pc and install ran
fine.
If this is vista getting in the way I'm not too impressed (just to add to
all the other things I'm not impressed with)
thanks
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I don't know, it sounds very strange indeed.
If you simply copied the setup file to XP I do not see how Vista could
interfere with that setup file. But obviously the problem does point to
Vista being the problem although I am more inclined to think it is an XP
problem.
 
Max said:
Ah...you are correct. I misread the part about 'from this machine to
that machine to this machine', and got it backwards. Read it too fast,
probably.
In that case (for XP Pro), of course, the file can be right clicked,
Properties, Security, edit permissions and take Ownership.
Have had to do this a few times myself.
Click to expand...
Thanks for the replies all, Max I'll try that on the dodgy file and
report back.
 
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