Phil Cook wrote:
> I'm sure I've mentioned someone getting a demo CD of a new game. Their 
> kid tried to install it on XP (as a LUser) and wondered why after just 
> clicking on the Next buttons, as he normally did, it wouldn't install. 
> Default installation directory - c:\program files\company name\game 
> name. IIRC even after changing that it didn't want to work because it 
> couldn't write to the system registry.

Well, yeah, installing software is often going to need admin privs. 
Given you only do that once per program, I don't have too much trouble 
with that. Of course, given it's a demo, you'd think they'd manage to 
make it so you could play it without "installing" it. On the third hand, 
given it's a demo, how much effort do you think management wants to 
spend on developing and testing it?

> Puts on User hat - "Because that's the programme that's stopped working, 
> the other ones are fine"

Well, sure. But you know what you're doing.

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   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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