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Subject: Re: I think I solved the Ruffian update mystery!

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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