I always run Stata as administrator in windows vista, for updating or not. I find, it runs smoother.
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Gaby Guerrero Serdán
Department of Economics
Royal Holloway, University of London
TW20 OEX
Egham, Surrey
England, UK
http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Economics/For-Staff/postgrads.html
--- On Sat, 2/21/09, Kit Baum <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Kit Baum <[email protected]>
> Subject: st: problems with Windows Vista
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Saturday, February 21, 2009, 11:25 AM
> <>
> Bob reported problems earlier this month with -ssc new-. He
> wrote
>
> Taking a hint provided by Nick Cox (thank you!), I found
> that using
> Vista's "run as administrator" when invoking
> Stata allowed me to run
> -ssc new. There is probably a permissions issue that I will
> investigate later.
>
>
> I recently had a private conversation with a user in Austin
> who was getting absolutely screwy results from -ivreg2- on
> Stata 9.2. After ensuring that she had the most up-to-date
> versions, I thought about the issue of official Stata
> updates. Turned out that every time she did 'update
> all', Vista would fail to update the files, butt Stata
> did not give a coherent error message as to the problem. I
> suggested that she run Stata as admin, as suggested above,
> and she reported that she could do the update, and ivreg2
> worked fine once she did.
>
> The strange thing is that Stata checks to see if the
> directory in which, e.g., official ado-files are written is
> writeable (which it was, for her) but then craps out on
> trying to move the files to that directory.
>
> Kit Baum, Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin
> http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
> An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
> http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html
>
>
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