I have a PC with Windows Vista.

I put my Poser 7 CD in my CD drive. I ran Autoload. But this error came:

Error executing file.
F:InstallersPoser 7 Setup.exe
The requested operation requires elevation

and the install stopped.

What is that?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

I believe thats saying you dont have enough authority to run the install. You need to be administrator . 

Try doing it upstairs.
(Sorry)
:O)

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I installed Poser 7 on a friend's laptop and got the same error. I tried lifting the laptop into the air and didn't help. Then we took the laptop upstairs and we got the same error.
We drove downtown, took an elevator to the top of a skyscraper, but that didn't help. :)

Seriously, though, we did a Google search for that error message and quickly found out what the error was (like markschum said, we needed admin access).

But, I agree with Anthony: what the **** does this error mean? The Microsoft programmers should have known better than to simply display an error message like this without any directions about what to do next.
What it have killed them to word the error as "You do not have administrative access to install this software." Then, at the user would know to either switch user accounts, get someone who does have admin access, or disable the "security" completely.

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What it have killed them to word the error as "You do not have administrative access to install this software."

Yeah, but that would be too easy. They want to toy with us!

Quote - I installed Poser 7 on a friend's laptop and got the same error. I tried lifting the laptop into the air and didn't help. Then we took the laptop upstairs and we got the same error.
We drove downtown, took an elevator to the top of a skyscraper, but that didn't help. :)

Seriously, though, we did a Google search for that error message and quickly found out what the error was (like markschum said, we needed admin access).

But, I agree with Anthony: what the **** does this error mean? The Microsoft programmers should have known better than to simply display an error message like this without any directions about what to do next.
What it have killed them to word the error as "You do not have administrative access to install this software." Then, at the user would know to either switch user accounts, get someone who does have admin access, or disable the "security" completely.

We're talking about Microsoft here.  You want them to make it easy on you? 

Fair punishment for using MS - use a Mac:)
Just shows their distorted logic - they put in security 'improvements' which force you to use your computer as administrator for simple software installment, which means you can do a million things wrong by accident and it will allow you because administrators know best.
If you remove all your files while you implement new software - well now you are really secure, nothing to ruin anymore:)

Long live Macs and other apple products!
(yes, I do have apple shares)

Hmm, consider this -

There was a 'humourous' error message left in one of the *NIX opereating systems when it went from beta to RTM many years ago. One of the developers was coding printer error messages and once he had coded all the possible errors he could imagine, he created one last error which would be displayed if something went wrong that wasn't covered by any of the categories of errors he had already catered for.

Because the software was still in beta and as a joke he worded the error as "KERNEL PANIC: Printer is on fire!"

No seriously, I wonder how many junior admins must have gone dashing for the fire extinguisher! :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin:

UA

Quote - Hmm, consider this -

In many versions of UNIX you can still get the very rare error message:
"Fatal error: Program completed successfully"
or the less rare:
"Unknown error" Of course the last one only happens when nobody has a clue what the actual problem is, so this is likely the most informative error message possible.

I am wondering why MicroSoft does actually give some kind of informative text message with their errors, just a numeric code would do just as well since you have to use the internet to look up the meaning of the error anyway and get suggestions (for anyone but MS) on the best solution.

Quote - [In many versions of UNIX you can still get the very rare error message:
"Fatal error: Program completed successfully"

Oh, there are a couple like this in Windows too. I had a recurring one for a while on one of my Windows 2003 servers, something along the lines of 'The service failed to start. The text below is the error message: The service started successfully' ??????? Oh well, good for a chuckle once in a while. :biggrin:

Quote - Fair punishment for using MS - use a Mac:)
Just shows their distorted logic - they put in security 'improvements' which force you to use your computer as administrator for simple software installment, which means you can do a million things wrong by accident and it will allow you because administrators know best.
If you remove all your files while you implement new software - well now you are really secure, nothing to ruin anymore:)

Long live Macs and other apple products!
(yes, I do have apple shares)

People always blame everything on M$ :), sure they have their share of sins, after around a year I'm still not sure if I like vista, but this is not Vista issue.

It's the application's fault. If it was written with vista in mind it would work fine without admin rights. Same with linux/unix/mac, if devs write some application so it requires admin rights you'll get similar error message if you don't have those admin rights. P7 was written for XP, not vista, vista changed some things when it comes to rights so, if you want to run this "old" application, pay up with admin rights.

Quote - It's the application's fault. If it was written with vista in mind it would work fine without admin rights. Same with linux/unix/mac, if devs write some application so it requires admin rights you'll get similar error message if you don't have those admin rights. P7 was written for XP, not vista, vista changed some things when it comes to rights so, if you want to run this "old" application, pay up with admin rights.

Vista (like all new Operating Systems) was supposed to be backward compatible. It should have been able to run the old programs, recognize those programs and set up the appropriate environment. P7 wasn't actually written for XP but for some generic OS combining features of Windows and Mac; it was compiled with some limitations for older Windows versions. It is using valid Windows API calls and should have been recognized by Vista. Most applications do NOT require admin rights on Vista, there is no real reason why Poser should require this except for the extended security. Vista should anticipate this and issue the correct warnings not just simply refuse to install and misbehave when running.
That said security on Vista is overdone and best switched off anyway.

And Vista does not run DOS full-screen mode. As a result I lost use of a good DOS-mode Emacs-type text editor called AAEMACS that I wrote in Gnu C++ for DOS and improved over many years; it ran in DOS fullscreen mode and displayed by poking characters to any place on the screen.

And Vista does not have some of the old "interrupts" (= system calls) to find information about files; thus I lost use of a good filestore-comparer program that I wrote in Gnu C++ for DOS.