Hello,
I installed Octave 8.4.0 on a Windows 11 Home machine through an EXE
installer. First thing I usually do, as a sort of quick initial test,
is to list the installed packages with "pkg list" on the Command Window.
The list came but interrupted less than halfway towards its end. Octave
then froze and I had to exit the application as that was the only way
to unlock it.
I fixed this problem by running Octave as administrator. I did this by
checking Octave's shortcut advanced property "Run as administrator".
It worked, but I wonder if that was the right thing to do and if there
wasn't a simpler and possibly less harmful way to run Octave as I
always did in the past.
The installer installed Octave in C:\Program Files\GNU Octave\Octave-8.4.0.
Thanks,
Fausto