Re: Administrator cannnot install some software

From: grandpoobah (stephen.schottman@kistler.com)
Date: 11/14/02 

From: stephen.schottman@kistler.com (grandpoobah)
Date: 14 Nov 2002 12:59:43 -0800

Chris:

It's possible that "Administrator" does not have full access to the
registry.

Check the following:

""Run RegEdt32 to open the registry
                                        
On the Security menu, click Permissions.

Confirm that the Administrators and whoever else is appropriate are
listed with Full Control permission.

Click to place a check in the Replace Permission On Existing Subkeys
check box, and then click OK."""

I've had the same problems with pseudo-legacy stuff (old versions of
ACT!, etc)

Hope this helps,

Steve

"Chris" <cbaye@ae-solutions.com> wrote in message news:<104d801c28bf3$e4faf140$37ef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA13>...
> While logged in as "Administrator", a member of the
> administrators group I cannot install certain software.
>
> For Autodesk Inventor I get the message (paraphrased)
> "Inventor did not register properly becase you don't have
> permission to change the registry"
>
> For SmartWeb (a component of SmerTeam) I get the error:
> The application could not write to the registry"
>
> Any hints would be helpful.
>
> Win 2000 pro SP3 (had problem in sp 2 as well)

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