Re: Windows Installer - Denied Access

From: Steven L Umbach (n9rou_at_nospam-comcast.net)
Date: 05/05/04 

Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 23:40:00 GMT

Make double sure you are logged on as an administrator. The setting may be disabled
in Group Policy and check your ntfs permissions to the msiexec.exe file in
\winnt\system32. The Group Policy setting is in both computer AND user configuration
where you may want to enable it keeping in mind that it will apply to all users. For
computer configuration look under administrative templates/Windows Components/Windows
installer and look in the same place under user configuration. On a local computer
use gpedit.msc to bring up local Group Policy. --- Steve

<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:837201c431f8$bc202450$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> I am unable to run windows installer. when I run
> services.msc and start the installer from there, I get the
> following error message "Could not start windows installer
> on local computer. Error 5, Access denied." In the
> registry, following the microsoft knowledge base article
> 227181 I could not find the following registration key:
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Insta
> ller I created the value name AlwaysInstallElevated and
> the value data REG_DWORD but have not yet rebooted my
> computer (mainly out of fear) I am logged into windows
> under administrator

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