LTSpice installation under w10

[Slav3k]

Hi guys!

I am pretty new to this forum. So let me introduce myself. My name is Jan, iam 24 y. old and my field of interest is electronics engineering, programming atomatization etc ...

Right now i am solving really weird problem. I cant install LTSpice XVII (and the older version neither). When i download installer, i start instalation and when it finishes, it just gives me warnin: "LTSpiceXVII Couldn't find Desktop location". So i say ok, never mind if i can just navigate into LTS directory and run program from here ... but guess what - its not working.

Any suggestions?
Thank you very much.
Have a nice succesful day
Jan (Slav3k)

 

[Slav3k]

Info about my laptop:
Lenovo T460p
w10 64x

Here is link to snippet with error message.
http://jonny100.rajce.idnes.cz/nastenka/#Vstiek3.jpg

 

[Alec_t]

Probably a permissions issue. Did you run the installer with administrator privileges?

 

[Slav3k]

Yep, i have tryed with admin privs, but no change at all.

 

[Slav3k]

Ok so i just went to my colleague and he had no problem installing LTS on his machine He has just iodentical machine .... weird

 

[Alec_t]

It installed fine on my Lenovo Z50-70 Win10 laptop too.

 

[Dennis Schwarz]

I had the same problem, too.

Try installing the Software logged in as an Administrator (not by only allowing admin-rights to the installer when logged in with a not-admin account). It seems that when only allowing administrator-rights for the install, the installer tries to find the admin-Desktop, but cannot access it.

Worked for me...

 

[Slav3k]

This could be solution. Now i realise that i got one account on my machine that is the "actual" admin ... I will give it a try. Thanks

 

[Harald Kapp]

It seems that when only allowing administrator-rights for the install, the installer tries to find the admin-Desktop, but cannot access it.

Looks like a Win10 issue, then. On Win 7 the 'run as admin' from a restricted account works o.k.