Installation on Windows 10

[Snarky Email]

   Got back to work on this and discovered that my antivirus (bitdefender)
   was blocking gnucash from writing files.  I had to whitelist the exe
   and it works.
   on a side note, I was using process monitor to try to figure out the
   issue and noticed that there are a lot of failed access to
   C:/dev/urandom.  On linux this is for random numbers, on windows it
   creates a fair amount of usless overhead.

   Sent: Monday, January 15, 2018 at 10:42 PM
   From: "Chris Smith" <chris at cgsmith.net>
   To: No recipient address
   Cc: "Snarky Email" <snarkyemail at gmx.com>, gnucash-user at gnucash.org
   Subject: Re: Installation on Windows 10
   Try run in gnucash as administrator by right clicking on the icon and
   selecting "Run as administrator"

   What does that do?

   On Jan 15, 2018 9:13 PM, "David Carlson"
   <[1]david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:

     Can you save other documents such as spreadsheets to that folder?
     Is there
     plenty of free space on your C: drive (like several GIG's)? is this
     machine
     owned by someone else such as your employer?
     David C
     On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 8:17 PM, Snarky Email
     <[2]snarkyemail at gmx.com> wrote:
     > David,
     >
     > I did create subfolder but the same error pops up.  I definetly
     have full
     > access to the folder and subfolder.  Is there any special first
     time steps
     > that I could be missing?
     >
     >
     >
     > *Sent:* Sunday, January 14, 2018 at 3:51 PM
     > *From:* "David Carlson" <[3]david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
     > *To:* "Snarky Email" <[4]snarkyemail at gmx.com>
     > *Cc:* "Gnucash Users" <[5]gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
     > *Subject:* Re: Installation on Windows 10
     > Snarky,
     >
     > It does seem very odd that GnuCash is unable to write to that
     folder.  Can
     > you save other documents to that folder?
     >
     > I would recommend creating a special subfolder for GnuCash data
     files as
     > GnuCash will be creating a lot of temporary files in the same
     folder.
     >
     > David C
     >
     >
     > On Jan 14, 2018 12:52 PM, "Snarky Email" <[6]snarkyemail at gmx.com>
     wrote:
     >>
     >>    I installed gnucash on my Windows 10 system and the new file
     setup
     >>    fails.  I am using defaults for a new account to practice/test
     with.
     >>    When I try to save as xml I get this error:  GnuCash could not
     write to
     >>    C:\Users\Joe\Documents\gnucashtest.gnucash.  That database may
     be on a
     >>    read-only file system, or you may not have write permission
     for the
     >>    directory."
     >>    I do have full access on the folder.
     >>    Any help would be appreciated.
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