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From: Gustavo Scheiffer (ghscheiffer_at_gmail.com)
Date: Tue Dec 15 2020 - 13:03:45 CST

Hi,
Yes, I always confirm the administrator privileges pop-up. The installation
itself seems to finish without any problems and there's plenty of disk
space. I tried executing VMD via Powershell to investigate further and
verified that the program seems to quit (maybe crashing?) right after
opening.

Output from Powershell:

PS C:\VMD> .\vmd.exe
PS C:\VMD> .\vmd.exe
PS C:\VMD> .\vmd.exe
PS C:\VMD> .\vmd.exe
PS C:\VMD> .\vmd.exe
PS C:\VMD> .\vmd.exe
PS C:\VMD> .\vmd.exe
PS C:\VMD> .\vmd.exe (yes, I needed to execute vmd 8 times to get the
output below)
Info) VMD for WIN32, version 1.9.3 (November 30, 2016)
Info) http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
Info) Email questions and bug reports to vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
Info) Please include this reference in published work using VMD:
Info) Humphrey, W., Dalke, A. and Schulten, K., `VMD - Visual
Info) Molecular Dynamics', J. Molec. Graphics 1996, 14.1, 33-38.
Info) -------------------------------------------------------------
Info) Multithreading available, 4 CPUs detected.
Info) Free system memory: 1075MB (26%)
PS C:\VMD> -- (VMD just stopped here?)

Worth noting that the warning message mentioned in the previous email only
appears sometimes (sometimes the VMD window just popup for less than a
second). Is there some conflict happening? For the record, I'm using an
Intel HD Graphics 4600 (drivers up to date).

Em ter., 15 de dez. de 2020 às 03:46, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
escreveu:

> Hi,
> When you try installing VMD, do you have administrator priveleges?
> Are you out of disk space?
>
> Best,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 04:01:30AM -0300, Gustavo Scheiffer wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I just can't manage to make VMD work on my PC (Windows 10). I tried
> many
> > different versions, always resulting in the same problem. When I
> click
> > on the VMD.exe, Windows exhibits a warning message "Windows cannot
> > access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the
> > appropriate permissions to access the item". I was really hoping to
> use
> > VMD to learn NAMD.
> > Best regards,
> > Gustavo Scheiffer
>
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> University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
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>