And lo on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:56:25 +0100, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom>  
did spake, saying:

> 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.

Except it was going to be installed by one user for one user, as a LUser  
anything they install shouldn't be able to change anything systemwise and  
in this case shouldn't *need* to change anything systemwise. Given that  
this was also a U-certificate type game demo should it really need an  
admin to install and possibly run?

> 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?

To the extent they want to be able to sell the full game, which in this  
case they didn't.

>> 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.

Only if I change hats.

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Phil Cook

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