f700es Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 OK, once again, I am bringing a discussion from another forum here to get some unfiltered feed back. Yes, this is from the SketchUp forum, again, so almost any time someone posts an issues with SU not working well a select few will ALWAYS respond that the user should right-click and install with admin rights. I mention once that I've NEVER had to do this with ANY software since moving to Windows 7. I mean ANY software Windows 7 Home/Pro to Windows 10 Home/Pro. I have no issues with SU, Acad, Revit, Max, Form-Z, Simlab, Unity, Blender, etc...and have NEVER installed this way. One user said that I was just "lucky". Perhaps so but I thought I'd ask here. Anyone else....just lucky? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkmcswain Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 As long as I'm logged in using an account with local admin access, it works fine with normal execution. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f700es Posted August 22, 2019 Author Share Posted August 22, 2019 What I thought as well RK, thanks. I can't remember when I haven't had full admin rights on a box. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cad64 Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 Yeah, I've never done a right click install either, and I have installed tons of programs over the years, on many different computers, on many different OS's. Just lucky I guess. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bethel Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 I have 2 in particular that you were forced to have full admin rights to complete the install. Both were bugs and were fixed eventually. That has been a long time ago ( XP / VISTA ) Both were specific to my industry. But what a pain it was ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGAL Posted August 25, 2019 Share Posted August 25, 2019 1200 computers on the network so in some cases because of security have to get IT install and worse some software writes temporary files to directories that IT lock. They have to add to a permission install list. Autocad and a couple of others were impacted, some just install. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shift1313 Posted September 25, 2019 Share Posted September 25, 2019 There are some issues on Win 10 business license i believe. Even if your account has full admin if you are installing or working on the root drive a lot of times you will be required to "admin" it up. I don't specifically know when or what but this is the case with many software and even to the point where ones like Solidworks won't let you touch certain things in certain folders on certain installs even if you have admin. I had to do this a lot on Win 7, not as much on Win10 but yes still do. I don't think "luck" has anything to do with it. I do believe it has to do with what version of Windows you are running and the location of the file on that system. For example the "Program Data" folder is really touchy about that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f700es Posted September 25, 2019 Author Share Posted September 25, 2019 Thanks for the input all. I have just got my new desktop at work and I am going to install ALL my software as I normally do, with no right-click install as admin and see what happens. I'll report back if I have any issues. Specs: Dell Precision 3630 Intel i7-8700 32 gb ram 8 gb RTX 2080 512 gb m.2 nvme 1 tb sata hdd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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