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I tried to install version 5.0 Beta 1 on to my Windows 7 64 bit but it hangs machine.

The way I tried it was I remote desktop to my server which is running Windows 7 64bit and try and install from a share on a Lacie NAS.  At this point I get prompted by the UAC and then the machine effectively hangs and can't even get to task manager.  Only a hard reset worked and so I tried it again and same result.  Copying the setup.exe to the local desktop then worked fine and installation proceeded ok.

Have seen it with one or two things refusing to install of a network share but not to the point where it kills the machine.  Could be an AV issue but just wanted to raise it as a potential issue.

I have never seen this going wrong.

What is a bit of an odd scenario is this:
You are user A, and install from a shared drive.
SABnzbd asks to run in admin mode.
Windows pops up UAC.
You accept.
Now you are user "admin" and Windows wants to know the username/password for the share.
You give it and installation continues.

Is this what is happing on your system and did the popup for username/password got lost?

No didn't get a pop up for the username/password on the share.  It was the only window open a the time, its almost like the UAC didn't release full control back to the OS.  The NAS share is a permanently mapped network drive so shouldn't require a further username and password and I have also set up the NAS system so there is the users for the share can include the admin on each box.

I will try a few more things to see if I can find anything more out.

What I've seen is that even when your logged as admin
and have a share mounted, Windows still want the user/pw after the UAC prompt.
In short: it's tricky installing from a network share with Win7.