[Qgis-user] Issue installing QGIS 2.8 64 bit on Windows 8.1 - it defaulted to the administrative user

[Nicolas Cadieux]

Hi, 
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. 
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. 
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.  
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. 
Good luck 
Nicolas Cadieux M.Sc. 
Les Entreprises Archéotec inc.  
8548, rue Saint-Denis Montréal H2P 2H2 
Téléphone: 514.381.5112  Fax: 514.381.4995 
www.archeotec.ca 
On Jun 15, 2015 12:00 AM, "Peter Cooper [via OSGeo.org]" <ml-node+s1560n5210913h64 at n6.nabble.com> wrote: 

	



I have 64 bit windows 8.1, and 2 users – an administrative user and a 
non-administrative one. 
  
As I normally do for installations, I used the non-administrative user to 
download and install the 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. 
  
Do 
I have to keep using it from my administrative user? Did I miss this bit of the 
installation documentation? 
  
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: 
3 
  on all desktops: MSYS, 
  SAGA GIS (2.1.2), OSGEO4W Shell 
  plus 
  3 just on the administrative user’s desktop: 
  GRASS 
  GIS 6.4.3, QGIS Browser 2.8.2, QGIS Desktop 2.8.2 
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. 
  
Peter 
C 
  
  
  
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