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Installing IDL 5.3 under Windows [message #30175]

Thu, 11 April 2002 08:58

Alex Schuster
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Registered: February 1997

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I am often installing IDL on our Windows machines, because they are
being re-installed all the time. Sometimes it just works, sometimes I
have problems to change preferences a a normal user. I get the message
'Preferences are currently being shared and you do not have rights to
change them. If ypu need to blah blah, contact your sysadmin bla blah,
or give "Set value" access to the registry key:
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Research Systems, Inc." and all its
subkeys.'
Well, I don't know how to do this, I can find it in regedit.exe, but no
idea how to give set value access. And I wonder why I have to do this
sometimes, and why it works the other day.

Am I the only one facing this problem?

Additionally, I currently get the messages "Access denied" and
"Configuration file is corrupted" twice directly after IDL is installed.
I also had this before, but ti did not seem to matter, and was gone
after I re-installed IDL again.
There are rumors that it helps to install it to C:\RSI instead of
C:\Program Files\RSI, or that you should not install it being logged in
as administrator, but via shift-right-mouse-button and 'Execute as...',
but I tried that and it does not seem to matter.

Going home now after four unsuccessful installs,

Alex
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Alex Schuster Wonko@netcologne.de
alex@pet.mpin-koeln.mpg.de

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		Installing IDL 5.3 under Windows By: Alex Schuster on Thu, 11 April 2002 08:58
		Re: Installing IDL 5.3 under Windows By: Rick Towler on Thu, 11 April 2002 16:54
		Re: installing IDL By: R.Bauer on Fri, 13 June 2003 22:39
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