It installed fine on my desktop WinXP system, but would not install on my netbook running Windows 7 Starter. Kept getting "Cannot create folder" and "Cannot create file" messages. Tried the whole download and install process several times.

Any suggestions?

The installer by default installs to a system-wide location by default I believe, so may need to be run with elevated administrator privileges. Alternately, install it in a user-local location.

Thanks for the reply, but I don't understand a thing you wrote. How do I "run with elevated administrator privileges" or "install in a user-local location"?

in Windows there is a concept similar to root where there exists an administrator account and not all users have these rights see http://www.petri.co.il/enable-the-windo ... ccount.htm

On my Windows 7 Starter Edition there is no
Computer Management>System Tools>Local Users and Groups
(the other System Tools shown in the screenshot of the page you link to do exist, however). Maybe this is another way Windows 7 Starter Edition is crippled.

I was wondering what bcooksley might have meant in his or her reply, and tried installing to C:\Users\my_name\KDE instead of C:\Program Files\KDE, and it more or less worked. The files got installed in the desired directory but no shortcuts were installed in the start menu. And when I tried to run KMyMoney I got a couple error messages about missing DLL files; I copied them over from my XP machine and KMyMoney now seems to run fine.

lot of crippling in the Starter Edition http://social.answers.microsoft.com/For ... e66f3ec686

Windows 7 Starter has limited privileges by default. Try installing via user located admin rights to solve it. If this cannot be done, you can probably set it to the root directory where the file would be copied.

Find the installation file "kdewin-installer-gui-latest", right click on it and from the menu select "Run as administrator", the installation will procede normally. This works in Vista and Windows 7.