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   glnz
   Member

   Hornil StylePix Pro 1.14.2.2 looks great BUT I am trying to install on a Win 7 Pro 64-bit machine with three family-member Accounts and, so far, have been able to activate for one, maybe two of the Accounts, but not all three.
   The one definitely activated is an Admin, and so is the second (if it’s working). The third I am unable to activate is a plain old User and it won’t activate even though I ran Activate with the Admin password. What to do?
   (I am learning Win 7 Pro for the first time, as I am only recently a refugee from XP.)
   Please advise how to install and activate across all users on a Win 7 Pro 64-bit machine. Thanks.

   Posted 10 years ago #
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   glnz
   Member

   I seem to have fixed the problem by first converting the standard account into an admin account, going into that user, re-running Activate, and then converting the account back to standard. A bit clunky bit it worked.

   Now, there is a different issue: Thanks to GAOTD, I have Start Menu X on all three accounts. Today’s installation of Hornil StylePix Pro 1.14.2.2 shows up as a new program ONLY in the Start Menu X for the admin account in which I first installed the program, and NOT in the Start Menu X for the other two accounts (one admin and one standard). I fixed this by copying a shortcut into the Win 7 Programs folder in each of the other two accounts, so it now shows up in Start Menu X BUT only that shortcut shows up, not the complete Hornil program folder icon.

   SO – Hornil might focus on a better installation process that can install on a Win 7 Pro 64-bit machine in all accounts (including “standard” accounts) AND so that the complete Hornil Program folder appears in the Program list for all accounts.

   Thanks, Hornil and GAOTD. More high-quality stuff, please. (On my wish list – a good document management system like the one in my law firm (like Worldox), a good server OS that a non-tech can set up and use, and a complete small business accounting system that has inventory in and out, deals well with consignment and returns and can both print and scan barcodes on inventory. These three would have to work well together.)

   Posted 10 years ago #
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   ChrisS
   Administrator

   You don't need to install the program for all users, you need to give all users access to the program.

   See if this link helps: how do I share programs with all users ?

   Of course the best way is to select the "install for all users" option but some programmers don't include it.

   Posted 10 years ago #
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   glnz
   Member

   ChrisS - thanks for links, which will be helpful for other occasions when I am installing programs on my new Win 7 Pro 64-bit machine.

   The issue here was different: I was able to start the Hornil StylePix Pro 1.14.2.2 program in the "Standard" account but it prompted me for a registration key. The GAOTD "Activation" step wasn't working the way it worked in the Admin accounts, even though I ran the Activation.exe with admin password.

   I had to solve this problem as indicated above.

   Posted 10 years ago #
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   mikiem2
   Moderator

   I think what happened with the registration problems is that in the other account activate.exe wasn't allowed to add the 2 values to the registry. Often you can get around that sort of thing by running the software [in this case Activate.exe] as administrator or with administrator credentials. Another way to accomplish the same thing would be if/when as in this case the registration details aren't hidden, you can find them, export that key, then merge that key back into the registry while logged into another user account. Doing that you're accomplishing the same thing as running Activate.exe. At any rate you've got it handled, so that's all in case it helps next time.

   RE: Shortcuts... you could have easily copied the Start Menu shortcuts from the user Start Menu folder to the All User folder, but installing the app 3 times, once in each account, is perhaps easier still. Since the program folder's shared some files might be overwritten, but that doesn't matter in the least since they'd be the same before/after. You don't always get so lucky though -- sometimes an installation routine detects the prior installation & doesn't want to do a simple new install. If you can't install for all users, in that case you might have to rename or delete the program's folder or go ahead & uninstall -> reinstall.

   Now the real advantage of installing to every account comes when the software stores files in the user account folders -- if you're in account B & run software only installed in account A, you will not have access to any of those files or the data they contain. In fact you might want to check to see if StylePixPro added the files/folders to the other two accounts when you ran the app there. C:\Users\ [UserName]\ AppData\ Roaming\ Hornil\ StylePixPro\

   Posted 10 years ago #
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   glnz
   Member

   mikiem2 - You are correct regarding where something might be saved. Had to specify the third account "My Pictures", not the original admin account where the program was first installed.

   Posted 10 years ago #

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