Logged In: YES 
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These are difficult questions for me.
I don't know if my ACL (access control list?) is on that folder.

I'm almost certain the sysadmins did this for us. They try to 
get as much userfiles as possible on the network. They are 
also pretty restrictive (and understaffed) Backup is done only 
for network drives. The advantage is that I can access my 
user files from different computers (without using a server OS)

My start menu is almost empty. All programs we are able to 
use, are accessible through a shortcut on the desktop. I 
probably can read the startmenu folder but not write it. 

"My documents" refers to a networked directory. I have full 
access there and can run programs from there.

I suppose a patch would be to make more configuration 
options in the installer (Do you want to make shortcuts? Do 
you want to make them here?). I would make shortcuts on 
my desktop. (Yes, I can write there. Files sometimes go to 
c:\windows\desktop, and sometimes to a networked drive)

What would be needed to run python (and pythonwin) from a 
memory-stick or cd-rom? If that would work, my problem 
would be solved too. Even better: one installation would make 
python accessible from any computer on our network I would 
login to.

BTW: some drives (like C:) are hidden from explorer. I cannot 
do start -> run (but I can make a shortcut to cmd on my 
desktop, and run from there). I'm not sure I can get to regedit 
and/or do anything useful there.