[Virtualacorn-list] Problems upgrading 4.02 to 4.39

[Chris Hughes]

In message <20e5aff352.pnyoung at pnyoung.ormail.co.uk>
          Peter Young <pnyoung at ormail.co.uk> wrote:

> On 24 Nov 2012  "T.O.M.S." <admin at toms12.plus.com> wrote:


>> Hello Folks

>> On Sat Nov 24 12:48:02 GMT 2012 Peter Young pnyoung at ormail.co.uk
>> sayeth:


>>> maybe I'll have to buy the Select version of VRPC;

>> Er, don't understand... If you've got the VirtualRPC RISC OS 4.02 to
>> 4.39 uprade CD, I think that means you do already have the 'Select'
>> version, as at the point it was released as RISC OS v4.39 (i.e.
>> VirtualRPC-AdjustSA), some years ago.

> Ah, but the whole problem is that I can't get the upgrade from 4.02 to
> 4.39 to work. The installer keeps telling me that it can't copy the
> old boot because the directory is locked. Looking at it in Windows
> it's shown as read only, and nothing I've been able to do so far will
> change that. Apparently the dealer I got it from, already installed on
> a laptop, installs it under a user account instead of as
> administrator. I've been given advice on what to do about this, but
> nothing doing yet. I feel a phone call to the dealer coming on on
> Monday.

The reason you can not install it is because its in Program files 
under windows that sensibly has more restricted access to protect you 
from nasties.

You have a couple of options, is to make your account a computer Admin 
account, the other is install as an Administrator

First option (assuming XP), goto control panel,user accounts, select 
your account to change and you will probably be as a limited account, 
click in the button for Computer Administrator, save, etc..

Then I suggest you shutdown and restart and now try installing.

>> AFAICT, you can upgrade to subsequent (= post-Adjust) versions of
>> Select only by installing RISC OS 6 over the top of
>> VirtualRPC-AdjustSA.

>> My apologies if that's cr*p. Can anyone confirm or correct me on the
>> above please?

> Well, up to a point ...

>>> presumably one can have two copies of VRPC on the machine, as
>>> long as they're not both running at the same time?

>> For test purposes, we have multiple versions installed on some of our
>> machines. And it's certainly possible to run them at the same time in
>> separate Windows windows (if you see what I mean).

>> Any one can then be put into full-screen mode if desired.

> Thanks for this; it may come to two versions yet.

> With best wishes,

> Peter.



-- 
Chris Hughes