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Steven Raper
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      26th Sep 2003
When trying to unistall any software. I
receive an error code of Error 1926 Could not set file
security for file C:\Config.msi| error 5... Have
currently msi 2.0 and can not find a windows installer
cleanup utility for msi 2.0. Attempting to install as
administrator with 2 gb of disk space available.

 
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Michael Sanford [MVP]
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      29th Sep 2003
Kind of a tough problem to solve without being on the PC, but... Have you tried
just deleting or renaming the C:\Config.msi folder? Also, check permissions
that might be propogating to this folder.

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> When trying to unistall any software. I
> receive an error code of Error 1926 Could not set file
> security for file C:\Config.msi| error 5... Have
> currently msi 2.0 and can not find a windows installer
> cleanup utility for msi 2.0. Attempting to install as
> administrator with 2 gb of disk space available.
>



 
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