[Tutor] install on windows

[eryksun]

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:10 PM, larry seibold
<lseibold at seiboldsystems.com> wrote:
>

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> Windows Installer window contents, followed by OK button but no install
> takes place:
>
> Windows ® Installer. V 3.01.4001.5512
>
> msiexec /Option <Required Parameter> [Optional Parameter]


It's odd that it would pop up the help message box, as if it wasn't
run with the correct /i option. Maybe the file association is
misconfigured. Check assoc and ftype:


    C:\>assoc .msi
    .msi=Msi.Package

    C:\>ftype Msi.Package
    Msi.Package="%SystemRoot%\System32\msiexec.exe" /i "%1" %*


> Even though I had administrator rights (my user was in the administrator
> group) on the windows XP machine, I was not the "Administrator" user.

In XP (NT 5.1), a user in the local Administrators group has full
control, including installing device drivers and installing files to
%SystemRoot%\System32 such as python27.dll.

http://ss64.com/nt/syntax-security_groups.html