Originally Posted By: The Mystic
Originally Posted By: plasticarmyman
"The installer has insufficient privileges to access this directory: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Spiderweb Software. The Installation cannot continue. Log on as administrator or contact your system administrator."
You're not supposed to install to the ProgramData folder, but to Program Files or (for 32-bit programs) "Program Files (x86)." However, Win7 is a bit finicky when you install games to those two directories, so it's better to do what was suggested and create a folder specifically for games in the root directory.
Originally Posted By: plasticarmyman
Originally Posted By: A Creature I Don't Know
Windows 7 (and Vista, I think) go a bit screwy when you try to install things to that directory. Change the install location to something like C:\Games\Avadon, and it should work.
already tried that...it doesn't go past trying to create shortcuts in the start menu
Odd... I've been doing that for years, and it works just fine for me; I installed Avadon in "C:\Game Files\Avadon," and the installer and game ran perfectly.
I also have Win7 64-bit.
well the main problem is that the installer doesn't have those options...you can change the install directory, but it still tries to install shortcuts into the start menu, which is the default option for any installer in windows.
So yeah, most of the time with most any regular installer, you have the option to add start menu and desktop shortcuts, this one does not give you the choice, it just goes right ahead and attempts it...and since it doesn't have the proper permissions to install it comes up with that error and then stops installing and my only option was to reverse the installation and try again and again...
and no matter what solution you think works...the only one that did work was creating special group permissions in the Start Menu folder for Everyone, i do not know why i had to go all back asswards to do this...but it worked and the game is awesome