### Please describe the problem. Installing on Windows requires installing git followed by git-annex. Installing the former works without admin rights, but the latter cannot be installed afterwards. ### What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Create a Windows account without admin rights 2. Install git 3. Install git-annex ### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system? Latest release on MS Windows. ### Please provide any additional information below. Installing git creates read-only directories that cannot be used by the git-annex install afterwards. Without admin rights, the read-only flag of the git dir cannot be altered. [[!tag confirmed]]