Vista and lousy installs.

Using a Vista system?
Have UAC activated and installing a lot of software that give you errors because you did not install it with root privileges?

I got fed up with Apache installations failing, MsiAppLocale installations failing and who knows what others!

Some installers are conscientious. They tell you that you have to fire up a root command prompt and execute msiexec through the command line. But the command line is so confusing for beginners!

Here's an alternative solution. Go to C:>Windows>system32 and right-click msiexec.exe. Go to the Security tab, and check the Run as Administrator option.

There! Finally. Rest assured.