:D OMG! You guys are the bestest! This worked:

If that doesn't work you may have want to log into the built in Administrator account. I know you think you already are but these are two different things: The only difference between the 2 is that UAC will sometimes prompt your own admin account for permissions while it won't do that to the built-in admin account.

Assuming you are the admin, and you want to enable the built-in Admin Account : Start button > in the search box, type cmd > top left, right click at cmd.exe > click Run As Administrator > at the flashing prompt, compy/paste this command line ..... net user administrator /active:yes > press Enter key > exit cmd window. Your built-in admin account is now enabled > go to safe mode and you'll see it.

I had to log into the new admin account, Download ARC and it installed. Now I see all the samples that error-ed out before and loaded a sample and was blown away when I saw my future work bench to design D2-R2 when he arrives in his shipping pod. TY TY and Season's Greetings!

Cool, glad it was finally sorted!

I finally upgraded to win. 8 and downloaded ARC. It loaded up fine and appears to be working very well. I have no projects yet but, I'm feeling my way around and poking things. There is one thing I'd like to fix and that's the size of the text in the "Settings" screen ...I need it to be larger. The text size on the right side of that screen under "EZ-Script Functions" is just right but, the rest of the the screen is very tiny for an old man ...even for my tri-focals. I've searched but, haven't found a way to increase the size. Can you help?

Thanks, RJ

You should be able to raise your font size in the settings of your browser. I love google Chrome

Thanks but, I'm having trouble with the font size in ARC not my browser. I increased the font size in windows 8 but, it hasn't had any influence on ARC. Everything else is bigger except those teeny tiny words in the "settings" windows of ARC.

RJ

If the setting in Windows 8 control panel didn't increase the size then you can't increase the size of the font.

However, what you may be able to do is reduce the screen resolution. This will effectively make everything bigger however you will lose some screen real estate. This is done from the control panel in Windows, choose display and alter the resolution. I would guess it's set rather high if it's a new laptop as it'll be setup for HD. Drop it down to a lower resolution, test it out and find one that you can read and are happy with.

Or, you can use the Maginfier tool in Windows. I have no idea where it is in Windows 8 but if you move the mouse to the right of the screen you can search for apps, just search for Magnifier. It's likely to be in the accessibility group of apps.

Thanks for that. I hadn't thought about the resolution. I'll give it a try. Last resort is the magnifier. I need new glasses anyway. I guess it's time to get 'er done.

RJ

Yep, that helped. The text is still pretty small comparatively but, it will do. I don't have to use the magnifier now.

Thanks again, RJ