{"id":145,"date":"2009-10-06T13:35:08","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T17:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/?p=145"},"modified":"2009-10-06T13:37:10","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T17:37:10","slug":"vista-and-win-7-permissions-in-sofa-statistics-installer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/vista-and-win-7-permissions-in-sofa-statistics-installer\/","title":{"rendered":"Vista and Win 7 Permissions in SOFA Statistics Installer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Successfully installing an NSIS-created package requires some attention to the permissions of the person doing the installation onto their Windows machine.<\/p>\n<p>A useful discussion of permission levels is here &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.winamp.com\/showthread.php?postid=2342257\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/forums.winamp.com\/showthread.php?postid=2342257<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If a user does not install SOFA Statistics with the appropriate permissions they might receive an error message like:<\/p>\n<p>Error opening file for writing:<br \/>\nC:\\Program Files\\&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>This may occur even if there is no folder called Program Files e.g. if they are installing onto a Swedish version of Windows.\u00a0 See <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.gforums.winamp.com\/showthread.php?s=8a0906800e16ffd51be2d2fda1a23c4c&amp;threadid=306563\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/forums.gforums.winamp.com\/showthread.php?s=8a0906800e16ffd51be2d2fda1a23c4c&amp;threadid=306563<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If it is necessary to check if a user is installing with administrator permissions, the following may be useful &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/nsis.sourceforge.net\/Simple_tutorials\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/nsis.sourceforge.net\/Simple_tutorials<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Successfully installing an NSIS-created package requires some attention to the permissions of the person doing the installation onto their Windows machine. A useful discussion of permission levels is here &#8211; http:\/\/forums.winamp.com\/showthread.php?postid=2342257 If a user does not install SOFA Statistics with the appropriate permissions they might receive an error message like: Error opening file for writing: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-developers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}