Comments on: Installing Eclipse on Windows Vista

By: Russell Wallace

Russell Wallace — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:58:25 +0000

But why do you want to do that? It works fine if you just put it in c:\eclipse and there isn’t any hassle.

By: Greg Fenton

Greg Fenton — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:22:00 +0000

Have you seen this thread:

http://dev.eclipse.org/blogs/francis/2009/05/24/rcp-p2-vista-and-virtualstore/

By: Robert Smallshire

Robert Smallshire — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:56:55 +0000

Yes – I tried again on another Vista machine, and then mondo’s simple procedure above, didn’t work for me. I had to visit this page to follow the full procedure

By: fuffa

fuffa — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:20:45 +0000

@Robert Smallshire So..., any results yet?

By: Robert Smallshire

Robert Smallshire — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:16:23 +0000

@mondo Unfortunately, the approach you describe, which is what I usually do when copying executables to Program Files, didn't work for me with Eclipse, hence the rather involved procedure above. I'll have the opportunity to install Eclipse again on another Vista machine later this week, so I'll report back after another attempt following the more simple, although still somewhat obscure, method.

By: mondo

mondo — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:15:23 +0000

Much simpler solution is to first launch eclipse.exe outside of Program Files and in the Security Warning dialog uncheck the ‘Always ask me about running this file’ option. The system will remember this. Then you can move your eclipse into Program Files and it will start without the annoyance. (Setting that option in PF was useless.)