INFO: User Permissions and Privileges Considerations for E-Prime [34585]

This article applies to:

E-Prime 3.0

E-Prime 2.0

E-Prime 1.x

Detail

E-Prime requires Administrator permissions for installation of the Prerequisites and the E-Prime Suite. We recommend you perform installations on a Windows account with full Admin privileges and run the installation packages via the right-click > Run as Administrator option.

NOTE: A Standard Windows account has the permissions below enabled by default. If these are blocked by your IT department, please consult them directly.

During installation, E-Prime requires Write access to the following:

• Temp folder (e.g., C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Local\Temp\)
• System32 folder (e.g., C:\Windows\System32\)
• ProgramData folder (e.g., C:\ProgramData\Pst\E-Prime\)
• Program Files folder (e.g., C:\Program Files (x86)\PST)
• Common Files folder (e.g., C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files)

Under normal use, E-Prime requires Read/Write access to the following:

• AppData folder (e.g., C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Local\)
• Common Files folder (e.g., C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files)
• ProgramData folder (e.g., C:\ProgramData\Pst\E-Prime\)
• Any folder the experiments are saved to and run from (e.g., My Documents, Desktop, etc.).

Under normal use, E-Prime requires Read access to the following:

• System32 folder (e.g., C:\Windows\System32\)
• Program Files folder (e.g., C:\Program Files (x86)\PST)

Lastly, E-Prime requires access to port 1947 for sending and receiving UPD and TCP packets (see INFO: E-Prime Machine Configuration Requirements [43078] for more details). 

See Also:

INSTALL: Installing E-Prime and its prerequisites remotely or from a non-local disk drive is not recommended [34584]

INSTALL: E-Prime 3.0 Prerequisites required for installation [26947]

INSTALL: E-Prime 2.0 Prerequisites required for installation [19325]