<![CDATA[PA fails to run after install on non-admin accounts]]>I use PA at my university. Students have a limited user account.
I always install PA to the desktop, since I have write access there.

When I install PA 9.6 (beta 2 or 3), I get file error messages on WBHELP2.DLL and WBOCX.OCX, access is denied, so cannot write to windows directory.

Now when I try running PA, PA crashes with “PowerArchiver 2006 has encountered…… We are sorry for the inconvenience.”

I can bet that the WindowBlinds skin engine is causing this! Even if I remove all PA entries from the registry (the admin missed something…), or delete the Skins folder, it still happens.
No other version of PA does this, but 9.6.

I dunno how this can be solved; maybe you shouldn’t initialize the skin engine if there is no skin selected, which is the default.

PS: why not install the WB files in the PA dir? PA is the only app that needs to use those files!

]]>https://forums.powerarchiver.com/topic/1427/pa-fails-to-run-after-install-on-non-admin-accountsRSS for NodeMon, 13 Jul 2026 10:18:41 GMTTue, 28 Mar 2006 11:35:46 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to PA fails to run after install on non-admin accounts on Wed, 29 Mar 2006 06:59:29 GMT]]>OK, the problem is solved - PA runs!!!

If I try to select a skin, nothing happens!!

Great work!!! ;-)

]]>https://forums.powerarchiver.com/post/10824https://forums.powerarchiver.com/post/10824Wed, 29 Mar 2006 06:59:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to PA fails to run after install on non-admin accounts on Wed, 29 Mar 2006 06:51:23 GMT]]>Thanks!

Until the problem is fully resolved, I’ll have to use 9.51 on campus and 9.6 at home… :-)

]]>https://forums.powerarchiver.com/post/10823https://forums.powerarchiver.com/post/10823Wed, 29 Mar 2006 06:51:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to PA fails to run after install on non-admin accounts on Tue, 28 Mar 2006 22:19:54 GMT]]>With 9.6 final, PA will skip around missing dll’s and continue working…

thanks

]]>https://forums.powerarchiver.com/post/10814https://forums.powerarchiver.com/post/10814Tue, 28 Mar 2006 22:19:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to PA fails to run after install on non-admin accounts on Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:14:08 GMT]]>we cant add it to any other folder. Thats the way it works. So you have to have an admin account to install it.

]]>https://forums.powerarchiver.com/post/10810https://forums.powerarchiver.com/post/10810Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:14:08 GMT