Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee 2.0 On Windows 7 - Fatal Error

["Dustin C. Hatch" <admiralnemo gmail com>]

On 4/6/2011 6:08 PM, G M Slater wrote:
> On 4/6/2011 3:40 PM, Dustin C. Hatch wrote:
> > On 4/6/2011 3:57 PM, precipitous wrote:
> The log file reads:
Try deleting the addin-db-001 directory inside the 
AppData\Roaming\banshee-1 and re-launch Banshee

> As a side note - running .msi files normally installs applications as
> administrator, and sets them to run as such automatically. There are
> many applications which need to be run as administrator in versions of
> Windows from Vista onward (I happen to be a support tech for one of
> them)... One of the may reasons I run Linux at home!
That's not true at all. Installing applications does require 
Administrative privileges, but Windows Installer does not automatically 
set applications to run as administrator unless the application 
specifically asks for it. Applications that need to make system-wide 
changes will need to run as administrator, however this isn't the case 
for most software. Programs that need to run as administrator are 
generally written poorly, which Banshee is not.

Running as administrator is exactly equivalent to using sudo on Linux. 
The reason it seems more common on Windows is because Windows hasn't 
always had a good separation of privileges like has starting with Vista, 
so legacy and poorly-written applications do not know how to cope with 
it. Linux has the exact same separation, but it always has, so software 
is written with that in mind.

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