Re: SP2 Install problem

From: Carey Frisch [MVP] (mrxp2004_at_nospamyahoo.com)
Date: 08/26/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 09:58:19 -0500

Remove the 'Read Only' property from branches.inf and branches.PNF
in Windows directory \WINDOWS\inf . 

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
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"Monty" wrote:
| Has anyone run across this while installing SP2:
| 
| "cannot copy the file branches.inf"
| 
| The file is located in C:\Windows\softwareapplication(I 
| think)\(a really long hex string)\update
| 
| I've got six of those branches.inf files on the system and 
| it can't copy any of them.  I'm running the install as 
| Administrator, which I would have thought gave me 
| permission to everything.
| 
| Any ideas?
| 
| Thanks

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