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Topic: Need HELP with litecoin guiminer installation (Read 817 times)

newbie
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Probably you have installed guiminer to Program Files, this folder is protected in Windows 7. Install it to root folder, that is c:\. Also, you can try ScryptMiner
newbie
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Litecoin wallet is installed... joined a 2 litecoin pools
tried over and over multiple times today to get the litecoin 32 guiminer version to install and keep getting the following error message:

ERROR:root:Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "guiminer.py", line 2845, in run
  File "guiminer.py", line 2255, in __init__
  File "guiminer.py", line 2496, in load_config
  File "guiminer.py", line 1211, in start_mining
  File "subprocess.pyo", line 672, in __init__
  File "subprocess.pyo", line 882, in _execute_child
WindowsError: [Error 5] Access is denied
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "guiminer.py", line 2854, in
  File "guiminer.py", line 2845, in run
  File "guiminer.py", line 2255, in __init__
  File "guiminer.py", line 2496, in load_config
  File "guiminer.py", line 1211, in start_mining
  File "subprocess.pyo", line 672, in __init__
  File "subprocess.pyo", line 882, in _execute_child
WindowsError: [Error 5] Access is denied

I am in the process of buying some litecoins right now. They should be in my account within the next day or 2.. am willing to give some litecoins to whoever can help me solve this problem

Here is some more info:
I am running Windows 7 Ultimate  32 bit
Video Card is Nvidia 8400 GS  (512 meg mem)  .. yeah i know not top of line
3 Gigs of system mem
I get the guiminer software downloaded, extracted, and then when I go to run on the guiminer.exe that error message above comes up.
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