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(235/242) 3951 - Install Error - cannot create folder (permissions?)

I have used jEdit for years on this machine but haven't updated it for some time. Today I tried again and remember why. With latest updates of Windows 10 and Java on board - I can dowload the installers/exe of the latest jEdit but when I run them it continually gives me (after running through all the disclaimers I need to accept) an error that it "cannot create the folder" in the program file for the 5.x version. Then asks me if I've got permissions? I have permissions, as the sole owner and admin of the machine. I went in and created the folder myself without error - BUT it still gave me the same error message. Does win 10 not recognize jEdit as a "safe installer" or something - I don't know what changed.

I've tried every setting/method I can think of - is there a bug in the installer, or is there some special proceedure for installing on Win 10 or something that I don't know about?

Submitted	rrjmdpa - 2016-02-18 20:05:22.704000	Assigned
Priority	2	Labels	install - error cannot create folder win 10
Status	open	Group	normal bug
Resolution	None

Comments

2016-02-18 20:25:37.789000 ezust	Are you using a pre-installed version of Java? What version is it? Do you have the same problem after installing a recent JRE from Oracle?
2016-02-18 21:34:01.246000 rrjmdpa	Well, like I said in my original post - I have the latest updates of both win 10 AND java - and YES the problem I detailed still occurs after all the troubleshooting I can think of including updating everything. [JAVA (build 1.8.0_73-b02)] The only thing that may be a clue or not is that I did upgrade to win 10 when it came out (after the orig install of jEdit) and several "updateable" programs now have to go through permissions "do you really want to do this" type things; BUT with others I usually get a "permission" pop-up. And, like I said, with jEdit the only thing I get is a complete bork message that it can't open the new folder and the question "do you have permissions."
2016-02-18 22:30:18.413000 ezust	Well, this is something I've had to do ever since Windows Vista, actually. And that is: windows explorer - c:\program files\ - right click go to permissions give myself "full control" in that directory. This opens a security hole in Windows however, and it might be better to just create the "jEdit" folder yourself from windows explorer.