module error in Vista -- works as administrator

[John Machin]

sawilla wrote:
> On Apr 21, 5:42 pm, John Machin <sjmac... at lexicon.net> wrote:
>> Log on as administrator, start python in command window and do this:
>>
>> import sys
>> sys.path # shows where python is looking for importables
>> import numpy
>> import os.path
>> print os.path.abspath(numpy.__file__) # shows where it found numpy
>>
>> Log on as ordinary user, start python in command window and do this:
>>
>> import sys
>> sys.path
>> # check how this is different from the admin's sys.path
>>
>> If you can't see what to do after that, come back here with the output
>> from those steps.
>>
>> HTH,
>> John
> 
> That was a great help, thank you. I now see what is causing the
> problem but I don't know how to fix it. I used easy_install to install
> several packages. When I run Python from an administrator command
> window all of the directories in C:\Program Files\Python25\Lib\site-
> packages\easy-install.pth are added to the sys.path. When I run it as
> a regular user, those directories are not added to the sys.path and so
> Python can't find the modules.
> 
> I know how to manually add those directories to Python's search path
> but then I'll need to update the path every time I install something.
> How do I get Python to automatically load the easy-install.pth file
> for the regular user account?
> 
> Reg

"""
If you can't see what to do after that, come back here with the output
from those steps.
"""
in particular what is in sys.path for the non-admin user.
Also what are the access rights to the easy-install.pth file?