title: Problems installing virtualenv on windows 10
body: <p>This is for school, I'm learning python, and I can't keep on going because I need to install some stuff that I just can't figure out how to get working.</p>
  
  <p>I have installed python 2.7.10 and I've installed "pip".</p>
  
  <p>I ran this command in CMD under administrator privileges:</p>
  
  <pre><code>C:\Users\randomrandom\Downloads\virtualenv-13.1.2&gt;python setup.py install
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This gave me:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Installed c:\python27\lib\site-packages\virtualenv-13.1.2-py2.7.egg
  Processing dependencies for virtualenv==13.1.2
  Finished processing dependencies for virtualenv==13.1.2
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is the problem, when I try to run this command:</p>
  
  <pre><code>python -m virtualenv myenv
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I get this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>C:\Users\randomrandom&gt;python -m virtualenv myenv
  New python executable in myenv\Scripts\python.exe
  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "&lt;string&gt;", line 1, in &lt;module&gt;
  UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe6 in position 22:     ordinal not in range(128)
  ERROR: The executable myenv\Scripts\python.exe is not functioning
  ERROR: It thinks sys.prefix is u'c:\\users\\*****\xe6r' (should be   u'c:\\users\\****\xe6r\\myenv')
  ERROR: virtualenv is not compatible with this system or executable
  Note: some Windows users have reported this error when they installed Python    for "Only this user" or have multiple versions of Python installed. Copying the    appropriate PythonXX.dll to the virtualenv Scripts/ directory may fix this   problem.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I've tried google, i've contacted my teacher, I have no idea what to do. How can I fix this?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance and sorry if it's not well enough explained, I'm in over my head here.</p>
  
  <p>PS: The "xe6r" in the path stuff is because I have a letter thats not common in my username, aka "æ".</p>