Why does Julia need an administrator account to run?

It good that you’re trying out Julia (finally), but how did you install?

I’m on Linux and use Juliaup, and it should also work on Windows (or other ways like just the Windows binary), I’m not sure, there it might need permissions, but Juliaup is optional.

If it’s some tool, not striclty Julia (or Juliaup), e.g. VS Code:

Can you show the error message (and explain what you already did), usually done my copy-pasting text (most useful when you want to show actual code, not working, for help)? About: “a member of a Windows domain network” might it be that you installed on some network drive you then do not have permission for? It seems unlikely you could then install even…

Some people on Windows have problems because of company firewall, but that would prevent installing in the first place (or packages), I think not a problem after you actually install to run Julia itself alone.

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