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Uninstalling, and reinstalling as Admin user seems to solve it. Now I can get
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=nicolas.cadieux@archeotec.ca
href="mailto:nicolas.cadieux@archeotec.ca">Nicolas Cadieux</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, June 15, 2015 12:13 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Qgis-user] Issue installing QGIS 2.8 64 bit on Windows
8.1 - it defaulted to the administrative user</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<P dir=ltr>Hi,<BR>I am assuming you are using the QGIS easy installer and not
the OSGEO installer. It is good practice to login as admin in Windows to install
any software. In theory, you can do it from any account but you will be
asked for the admin password (but this will sometime give problems). If you
are not asked for a password, maybe something went wrong. I would
uninstall QGIS and try again with a new downloaded installer. If this
fails, try the OSGEOW4 installer using the standard desktop option.</P>
<P dir=ltr>Unless you specify differently, any user can run QGIS from any
account, admin or not. If you have accents in your account name (like é),
you could have problems with some plugins.</P>
<P dir=ltr>QGIS is always installed with a number of software like Grass,
Saga... You can delete the short cuts from the desktop but, as you become
more proficient in QGIS, they will become handy. You can't delete the softwares.
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<P dir=ltr>The OSGEO4W Shell, for example will permit you to use GDAL directly
from the command line. You could do this directly from the windows command
prompt but you would need to change your system variable individually to make
sure Windows find the gdal software libraries and all it's dependencies. The
OSGEO4W DOS prompt does that for you.</P>
<P dir=ltr>Good luck</P>
<P dir=ltr>Nicolas Cadieux M.Sc.<BR>Les Entreprises Archéotec inc. <BR>8548, rue
Saint-Denis Montréal H2P 2H2<BR>Téléphone: 514.381.5112 Fax:
514.381.4995<BR>www.archeotec.ca</P>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Jun 15, 2015 12:00 AM, "Peter Cooper [via OSGeo.org]"
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<DIV>I have 64 bit windows 8.1, and 2 users – an administrative user and a
non-administrative one. </DIV>
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<DIV>As I normally do for installations, I used the non-administrative user to
download and install the <SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt">QGIS Standalone
installer version 2.8 64 bit. It seemed to install OK except that it was
installed for the administrative user (without asking me for any
password). I only realised this when I could not get it to work from the
desktop of the user I had installed it in, and saw that the sample data had
been installed into the Documents folder of the administrative
user.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt"></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt">Do I have to keep using it from my
administrative user? Did I miss this bit of the installation
documentation?</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt">By the way I was a little confused to
start with by all the new icons that appeared on my desktops, and I am
assuming I can ignore all but one:</SPAN></DIV>
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<LI><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt">3 on all desktops: <SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt">MSYS, SAGA GIS (2.1.2), OSGEO4W
Shell</SPAN></SPAN>
<LI><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt">plus 3 just on the administrative user’s
desktop: <SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt">GRASS GIS 6.4.3, QGIS Browser
2.8.2, QGIS Desktop 2.8.2</SPAN></SPAN></LI></UL>
<DIV><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt"><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt">Now I
have found how to run it I am looking forward to exploring QGIS for my own
uses. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to it.</SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt"><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt">Peter
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