vim and cream windows 7 access privileges

I recently installed cream onto a windows 7 laptop. I was installing the rails.vim plugin when tried to issue the :helptags ~/vim/docs command so I can have the rails helpfiles available.

I have since discovered that w7 doesn't allow user privileges in the program files directory so I haven't been able to add the helptags or use edit -> startup settings to change my vimfiles.

I found this thread here Allow access permission 开发者_如何学编程to write in Program Files of Windows 7 and a few websites referring to "ultimate windows tweaker" . Has anyone without third party software been able to get access rights for vim or cream on win7?

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If you want to have access privileges to the vim folder, then you should rather try a portable version of vim (try gvimportable from http://www.portableapps.com).

The access control has been designed such that multiple users can share a software and not modify it.

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As far as I know, on windows XP at least, you can put your vim files in your $HOME directory in a subdirectory called 'vimfiles'.

And you shoud have read/write access to that directory.

If you want to check where Vim is looking for config files in runtime, use :echo &rtp

You should at least see the default system wide vim directory and your home directory.

If this is a personal install, you'd better put everything in your home.

Have you tried ?

:helptags $HOME/vimfiles/doc

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There is a how-to here Take ownership Win 7 on how to grant user access to a folder and subfolders, which will allow me to set the ~/vim folder and subs to have write access.