PA fails to run after install on non-admin accounts

[Shivan]

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!

[spwolf]

we cant add it to any other folder. Thats the way it works. So you have to have an admin account to install it.

[spwolf]

With 9.6 final, PA will skip around missing dll’s and continue working…

thanks

[Shivan]

Thanks!

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

[Shivan]

OK, the problem is solved - PA runs!!!

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

Great work!!! ;-)