[Privoxy-users] Installation on Windows 11

[Lee]

On Thu, May 1, 2025 at 8:39 AM Ian Silvester wrote:
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> My experience FWIW is that if I install as my daily driver account, even if that account has admin, upon reboot Privoxy throws an error that it cannot write to ./privoxy.log and dies. I find I have to use -install to avoid this issue. Same behaviour on Win 10 and 11.

You probably took the default and installed Privoxy in "\Program files\Privoxy"
"c:\Program files" does not normally allow regular users to write to
anything there, so you can either
 a) do what I do and create a "c:\temp" that anyone can write to and
have privoxy logging set to "c:\temp\privoxy.log"
or
 b) modify file permissions on "c:\Program files\Privoxy" or
"c:\Program files\Privoxy\privoxy.log" to allow anyone to write there.
There's a FAQ for
  What to do if editing the config file of privoxy is access denied?
that's also applicable to the privoxy log file.

Lee