After two successful NIS 2012 installs on WIN 7 Pro, tried to install to a Notebook Acer with Intel Atom and WIN 7 starter. Installer downloads, but when clicking run, action bar appears for 2-3 seconds as if proceeding, then popup says "This program requires Administrator priviledge to continue" or something to that effect.
I have verified the ADMIN status of the account - creating a second ADMIN with the same result. I have used the scrubber with no success. What the heck is this mess?
By "scrubber" I meant the software package from Norton to remove any remnants of pre-installed Norton products. The main issue is that everything goes swimmingly until the install software is loaded and you hit "RUN". The process activity slider shows up and the software appears to download...then suddenly the (this I am assuming) install software thinks the user is NOT an administrator and pops up the warning "requires ADMIN priviledge" and terminates the process.
I have personally cleaned this machine to get some sort of speed out of it - but this is driving me CRAZY. I had AVIRA on it previously and wiped it out - rebooted twice - stood on my head and faced east....no luck. Still says I ain't no ADMIN...
After two successful NIS 2012 installs on WIN 7 Pro, tried to install to a Notebook Acer with Intel Atom and WIN 7 starter. Installer downloads, but when clicking run, action bar appears for 2-3 seconds as if proceeding, then popup says "This program requires Administrator priviledge to continue" or something to that effect.
I have verified the ADMIN status of the account - creating a second ADMIN with the same result. I have used the scrubber with no success. What the heck is this mess?
SMcG,
Some people do have problems with the Norton Download Installer so I'd suggest that you clean up again with the Norton Removal Tool and then download the one piece installation file for NIS 2012 as below:
New NIS 2012:
Click on this link -- NIS 2012 This will download a single file of around 100MB which you should save on your hard drive where you can use it again if necessary -- Do not select Run but use Save when asked and remember where you put it!
I don't know if this is available in WIN 7 Starter or not but try right mouse clicking on that saved file and selecting Run as Administrator if that is listed on the Context Menu you get when right mouse clicking on a file. This runs it with elevated privileges and may overcome your difficulty.
If it installs then run Live Update several times with a restart inbetween until it tells you that you are fully uptodate and you shold have version 19.2.0.10 which is the current major version.
If you run FireFox browser there are updates that come down via LiveUpdate for compatability with the everchaning FF versions ....