Author: margolies,marc
Date: 09:14:44 03/05/04
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Hi Gabor, Did all of the users which you created on your machine have admin priviledges? On March 05, 2004 at 06:24:51, Gabor Szots wrote: >Hi there, > >I did this small experiment. > >Starting point: the machine on which there is a Hungarian WinXP installed with >only one user. The Ruffian update is installed and works fine. > >Now I created a new user, named Gábor (you see, with an accented character at >the second place). I deleted the Ruffian updates, then did the update once again >SWITCHING FIRST TO THIS USER. And Ruffian did not work, I got the usual >"unlicensed..." error message. >I switched back to the original user (which had only English characters), and, >to my surprise, Ruffian worked fine! > >Now I created a 3rd user, switched to it, deleted Ruffians, repeated the update >process, and... Ruffian worked from this user's profile! Switching to the >original profile, Ruffian also worked! BUT SWITCHING TO THE 'ACCENTED' PROFILE, >Ruffian did not work! > >So it seems that ANY USER NAME WITH UNUSUAL CHARACTERS IS IGNORED. > >My proposition: until this is solved, rename your user profiles to simple names. >Then update your Ruffian, and, hopefully, it will work. > >I wish I had right. > >Gábor
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