by Taomyn » Sat Mar 21, 2009 12:44 pm
I'm having similar issues with Vista, but this is why it's happening at least for my installation.
Logged in as a standard user i.e. does not have admin rights. Try to install a plug-in and fails as we all know. Run MM as administrator with right-click runas, try to install plug-in again by double-clicking it, a second copy of MM appears and fails yet again. Why? Because running as Adminstrator when logged in as a standard user doesn't elevate thay user, but runs the new process as the administrator user you choose (you may have one), and loads a new profile. Same would happen even if you could run the plugin direct the same would happen.
My only course of action is to temporarily make my user an administrator, add the plugin, demote the user back again and then continue. Not very friendly.
What MM needs is either a menu option to allow you to say "Tools, Install plug-in" so it uses the correct session (but this won't help my case), or more sensibly, as Firefox/Thunderbird and many other applications do, stores plug-ins in a user accessible area without the need for admin rights.
I'm having similar issues with Vista, but this is why it's happening at least for my installation.
Logged in as a standard user i.e. does not have admin rights. Try to install a plug-in and fails as we all know. Run MM as administrator with right-click runas, try to install plug-in again by double-clicking it, a second copy of MM appears and fails yet again. Why? Because running as Adminstrator when logged in as a standard user doesn't elevate thay user, but runs the new process as the administrator user you choose (you may have one), and loads a new profile. Same would happen even if you could run the plugin direct the same would happen.
My only course of action is to temporarily make my user an administrator, add the plugin, demote the user back again and then continue. Not very friendly.
What MM needs is either a menu option to allow you to say "Tools, Install plug-in" so it uses the correct session (but this won't help my case), or more sensibly, as Firefox/Thunderbird and many other applications do, stores plug-ins in a user accessible area without the need for admin rights.