Belarc Advisor will not install due to insufficient priviledges

[Guest]

I have downloaded and attempted to install Belarc Advisor, forgetting that I
was not logged on as an administrator, and I got the error message "You do
not have access to make the required system configuration modifications.
Please rerun this installation from an administrators account. So, I stopped,
switched user to the administrator account, and tried again. No luck. I get
the same error. I have rechecked the status of my accounts, in the user
accounts page of control panel, and the account is indeed described as an
admin account.

Is this a problem with my OS settings, or possibly with Belarc ? I am
clueless.

Thanks in advance for advice.

 

[DatabaseBen]

yeh, i wonder about BeLarc myself. It is free but at what cost to us?

The other day when I networked my laptop and pc together,
the BeLarc on my laptop ran automatically and began scanning my
pc; eventhough I had always kept any active processes for it disabled and
not using
and memory.

So, I figured that BeLarc somehow installed and disguised somekind of hook
or something
that was not viewed as spyware by "all" the antivirals that I use. And
BeLarc got a batch of data/information
about my PC that I never intended to provide nor did it ask me if it was ok
to send the data to them. I wonder
if BeLarc may have violated my rights as well, since it was "only" installed
on my laptop.

Needless to say I unistalled BeLarc and scoured my registry for everything
related to it by name, date and time...
Maybe its a good thing you cant install it.

But if you do, I would install it once, get your information printed, then
unistall
it right away.... However, I am sure that whatever you get back from the
report, the
data, plus who knows what else, has also been captured and probably resold
by BeLarc.

 

[Jim]

I have downloaded and attempted to install Belarc Advisor, forgetting that
I
was not logged on as an administrator, and I got the error message "You do
not have access to make the required system configuration modifications.
Please rerun this installation from an administrators account. So, I
stopped,
switched user to the administrator account, and tried again. No luck. I
get
the same error. I have rechecked the status of my accounts, in the user
accounts page of control panel, and the account is indeed described as an
admin account.

Is this a problem with my OS settings, or possibly with Belarc ? I am
clueless.

Thanks in advance for advice.

I have installed Belarc on several computers without problem, but I always
installed it with an administrator accout. It works well for me.
What did Belarc say about your problem?
Jim

 

[thecreator]

Hi Bill,

Use Regedit or another Registry Editor you use. Remove the following keys:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Belarc and the sub-keys.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Belarc and the sub-keys

Now try to reinstall. But see if Belarc is listed in Add or Remove Programs and attempt to uninstall it, before you reinstall it.