jason said:
Subject says it all... SP2 installation runs for a long time and pops up
a window, "Access Denied" and on clicking OK, the installer backs out
the installation for a while and then reports that the system may or may
not be ok... The installation was run from the Administrator account.
Any idea what might cause this?
Usually a registry permission issue. I find the quickest way to solve the
Access Denied error is to download SubInACL from Microsoft and run a few
command lines to have the Administrators group full control on the HKLM,
HKCR, and HKCU hives rather than enabling verbose logging from KB 873148
<
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/873148> which can be extremely time
consuming to figure out what registry key or keys are causing the Access
Denied message. After the command lines for SubInACL have ran then try to
install Service Pack 2.
First download SubInACL and install.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...56-d8fe-4a91-93cf-ed6985e3927b&DisplayLang=en
Then from the command prompt type the following
cd\
cd "%programfiles%\Windows Resource Kits\Tools"
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /grant=administrators=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CURRENT_USER /grant=administrators=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE /grant=administrators=f
Download and install the IT Version of Service Pack from Microsoft and yes,
you can use the Service Pack 2 Network Installation Package for IT
Professionals and Developers fro your computer rather than Windows Update.
Windows XP Service Pack 2 Network Installation Package for IT Professionals
and Developers
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...BE-3B8E-4F30-8245-9E368D3CDB5A&displaylang=en
