Hi,

I've downloaded the 5.1 developer demo version.
However it hanged when I tried to install it.
(hanged on the fifth bar of the installshield)

Deddy

Please create a support ticket indicating as much detail about your configuration as possible.

Make sure to give the installer ample time. There's a minor bug in InstallShield (scripting) that causes the installer to take more time than expected if .NET Framework 1.0 isn't installed on the target machine. Even so, I've never seen an install take more than about 1 minute.

Also, the .NET Installer could try to access the internet. If your firewall asks you if it's "okay", you can say either yes or no, but you need to acknowledge that dialog for the installation to continue.

It took more than 20 mins before I had to stop the install shield by using end task and there's no firewall
turned on Microsoft or others.

There are 4 dll files that has already been copied to the WL5 directory before I had to end task to stop the install shield. (Community.Comission.dll, ControlLibrary, FidelityComponents, Log4Net).

Hope this helps.

Thanks,
Deddy

It doesn't help, sorry. Please follow Eugene's cue, it would be a better starting point.

I'll try to manually install the ,NET framwork 1.0 first and see how it goes.
If that doesn't work then i'll go to support.

Hi Deddy. I see your trial record, therefore installing .NET 1.1 must have worked for you?

Note to everyone: please install and activate WLD5 using Administrator account. Trying to do it as a regular user can cause problems.

Hi Eugene,

Is there a way to get WLD to run in usermode(without using runas), as it tries to re-register. I've set the data dirs to allow user r/w but no diff,(often does the trick in cases like this). I searched the registry to look for a way to copy any entries from the admin a/c to the user a/c but couldn't find any.

Any ideas?


Regards

Which Version of WLD are you referring to?

5.1, that's just been released.
Regards

It's Ok, worked it out, I just copied the admin "Application Data\Fidelity Investments" dir from docs & settings to the equivalent user dir.

Clearly copying that directory is an extraordinary measure that shouldn't be necessary. I'd like to know more about the environment and the trouble you had. Please give more details, starting with your O.S.

XpPro...But...
If it's unique to my machine it's more than likely a host protection program that probably blocked a function on install or something...I'd probably have to reinstall it to find out what happened.
So I wouldn't worry about it.

Okay, thanks. I'll look at it anyway to make sure at non-admin privileged user can run WLD5 without copying folders.

When 5.0 just came out, I remember some problems with non-admin rights were solved by allowing the users group to modify and write to Program Files\Fidelity Investments\Wealth-Lab Pro 5.

Yes, I probably just had to make sure I had the permissions right, I have similar issues with some other programs. Giving the user group read/write permissions to the dir, will often do the trick. But I usually like to minimise user permissions & only allow to the data dir & any config or log files. I get caught out if a new file is created, so the folder needs read/write permissions. I'm not sure if that was the case in this instance. Maybe I'll try a reinstall sometime.
I only go down this track to minimise potentual malware issues. Bit of a pain & but maybe worth it one day.

Regards