Introduction

You must have Administrator privileges or be a member of the Administrator group to install IDL or ENVI. If you do not have such privileges, the installation process cannot modify the system configuration of the machine, so it will fail. After you have installed IDL or ENVI, you do not need Administrator privileges to run it.

After you have installed IDL or ENVI (see Installing IDL or ENVI for Windows), use the License Wizard to retrieve and install a license. You can run the License Wizard at any time by selecting Start → All Programs → IDL x.x → License Wizard or
Start → All Programs → ENVI x.x → License Wizard.

Warning
You must have Administrator privileges to install licenses or to install, start, or stop the License Manager.