How to Install Analytica -- Individual License

Individual licenses are licenses that do not require the use of an Reprise License Manager server. They include Player licenses. Prior to release 4.2, all Analytica licenses were individual licenses.

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Before installing, you will have either:

• signed up for a 15-day Analytica Trial
• purchased an Analytica license, or
• Signed up for an Analytica 4.1 to 4.2 upgrade with your active support

The result of any of those is that Lumina will have emailed you your Analytica 4.2 activation key.

Which Account to Run Installer From

An important question to consider is which Windows account you should run it from. Should you run it from your own user account, or should you run it from an administrator account?

For a simple answer, Lumina recommends you run the Analytica 4.2 installer from the end-user account, not from a different administrator account. The Analytica installer does not require administrative privleges, so unlike many other programs, you can install Analytica without being an admin on your machine.

If you want a more detailed answer, there are reasons why you might prefer installing it from an administrator account rather than from the end-user account. The installer behaves slightly differently in the two cases. When run from an admin account, it installs Analytica so that the program is available for all users of the computer; however, other users will only be able to use the free Player edition until they obtain their own activation key. When they do obtain their own activation key at a later time, they can enter it directly into Analytica's Help→Update License... dialog without having to run the installer again. When run from a non-admin account, the Analytica installation is available only in your account.

Important: If you run the installer from a Windows account other than the end-user's account, do not enter the activation key when the installer asks for it. Just leave the field blank, and let the end-user enter the key from his own account the first time he launches Analytica. Analytica's End-User License Agreement stipulates that an individual license can only be used by one user. If you enter the activation key from a different account, you are activating the license for that account, rather than for the end-user's account.

Lumina's recommendation to run the installer from the end-user's account is our recommendation specifically as a way to avoid the mistake of entering the activation key from the wrong account. If you avoid that mistake, installing from an admin account is fine.

Note: ADE's installer is different -- it should be run from an admin account.

Download

Visit Analytica Download Page and click on one of the links:

• AnaSetup.exe
• Ana64Setup.exe { Use this one only if you are installing the 64-bit edition }

After clicking on the link, you will probably see a dialog such as:

You can save the file then run it, or press Run in the dialog. Here we press Run:

Notice that the installer is digitally signed by Lumina Decision Systems. Run it: