[Qt-interest] Qt Commercial installation on Windows 7

[John McClurkin]

christopher at technophile.info wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Oct 2009 10:23:57 +0200, <christopher at technophile.info> wrote:
>> Hi people,
>>
>> I've just downloaded the Qt 4.5.3 release (commercial version) from
>> dist.trolltech.com, but it refuses to install complaining about an invalid
>> key, even though I've placed the .qt-license file in the user
>> homedirectory.
>>
>> Have anyone else had troubles with this? The installation won't accept
>> when I enter the key (when prompted during install).
>>
>> --
>> Christopher
> 
> 
> Ok, so this is strange. If you choose to run as administrator THEN it works. Is this something I should report as a bug somewhere?
> 
> --
> Christopher
This is a Windows 7 issue, not a Qt issue. Windows 7 has enhanced 
security features that, among other things, prevent normal users from 
writing into the program directory. See other threads in this list about 
Windows 7.