From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Toye Subject: Problems installing git-for-windows Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 12:44:00 +0000 Message-ID: <323868295.20151207124400@ptoye.com> Reply-To: Peter Toye Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Dec 07 13:50:48 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a5vFf-0006l7-9b for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2015 13:50:47 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754443AbbLGMum (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Dec 2015 07:50:42 -0500 Received: from smtp5.interdns.co.uk ([109.123.97.29]:49608 "EHLO smtp5.interdns.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753374AbbLGMul (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Dec 2015 07:50:41 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 398 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2015 07:50:40 EST Received: (qmail 18040 invoked from network); 7 Dec 2015 12:44:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.4?) (ptoye@ptoyeuk@46.33.141.178) by smtp5.interdns.co.uk with ESMTPA; 7 Dec 2015 12:44:00 -0000 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, I've just downloaded git-for-windows. It uninstalled an earlier version that I had (about 5 years old) and I got some problems. 1) It wanted to install into my User directory instead of the Program Files directory, which is the best place for all programs. The installer told me that this had access right problems, so I installed it into another directory. It seemed to go OK. 2) However, the icons on the desktop pointed to the place that my previous installation had been ( C:\Program Files (x86)\Git ) - that's where I'd have hoped that the new installation would go! 3) I uninstalled it to see if a cleaner installatoin would work, and the GIT-GUI icon didn't disappear from the desktop - minor bug I suspect. Regards, Peter mailto:git@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com