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?

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.

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

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.