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Question

Installing Downloaded Word Processor "LibreOffice"

Mar 27, 2018 10:55PM PDT

I have Windows 10.

While I was installing downloaded Word Processor "LibreOffice's" latest version 5.4.5, a message popped up, saying "Installation cannot continue. Log on as Administrator or contact your system administrator."

Where do I "log on as Administrator" for the above purpose? (I am the only "Administrator" for my stand alone home PC.)

Thank you!

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Re: administrator
Mar 28, 2018 1:11AM PDT

Try "Run as administrator" for the installation program.

Yes, even when logged in as administrator "run as administrator" is different from "run". It's confusing.

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Admin
Mar 28, 2018 7:33AM PDT

This account you log into is it an admin account?

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Follow-up Query
Mar 28, 2018 9:14AM PDT

Bob,

When I installed Windows 10, I am very certain that if I was asked to supply the name of the administrator, I must have supplied my name as the administrator for my stand alone PC. I tried to look up in "Settings" and so on in my PC to confirm that the system had my name as the administrator. I did not at all succeed in getting any information about my PC's "administrator."

Even after you will kindly be helping me in finding wherever my PC's "administrator,'s" name, my puzzle is going to remain as to WHERE, while installing the latest version of LibrreOffice, I will be "logging on as Administrator"; for in that installation process, there is nowhere a directive for me to "log on as Administrator." (By the way, in the past, I had installed many times updated versions of LibreOffice, and had never run into this "road block" regarding "logging on as Administrator"; this is something new.)

Thank you so very much.

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This should help
Mar 28, 2018 9:29AM PDT
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Thank you very much, Bob!
Mar 28, 2018 10:37AM PDT

Thank you very much, Bob, for your important help!