alexpgp | Windows 7 funnies... (Reply)

I only noticed the appearance of an Administrator account in Windows with the advent of XP, and frankly, never really saw much use in it, as the default user account that was created upon first firing up the system could pretty much do anything the Administrator could.

In Windows 7, something appears to have changed.

Against my better judgment (dealing with Nuance), I upgraded to PaperPort 12, which both Nuance and Microsoft agree will run in Windows 7. When I attempted to install it from my user account, the process spit an error message back at me:

1607: Unable to install InstallShield Scripting Runtime

Often, just using the error message in a Google search will point you at a bunch of sites that provide information on how to solve problems like this. I did so in this case, but the results all seemed aimed at pre-Windows 7 systems.

One common theme did emerge from the advice, though: check your user permissions vis-a-vis the installed directory. I interpreted this to mean: Why not try to install as Administrator, instead of user?

Guess what? The install went off without a glitch.

* * *In other news, Quicken InvoiceManager seems to not want to install at all, but in this case, it would appear to be something associated with the structure of the setup program itself, as it fails to run, even from the Administrator account.

Cheers...