MSAS error 101 + windows installer

[frosty]

Sorry I was so long in responding from the first post, but
life happens. Ok the problem is whenever I try to run MSAS
I get a popup that says error101 try restarting program or
reinstall. I try both but it gives me an error on the
windows installer. I have installed other programs and
have no problem with the installer on them(both windows
and non-windows apps). One other machine I have loaded
MSAS on is doing the same thing. One machine is running XP
home the other is XP Pro. I noticed the problem after I
had set teh admin password on the Home machine. MSAS quit
loading at startup and will not run nor can you uninstall
it. The other machine I installed MSAS under one user
(w/admin priv but not sysop) adn after a short time it
quit working on that user profile. Also that user is a AOL
fan, so there are issues there as well.
I will try to respond to any questions in a more timely
manner.
Frost

 

[Andre Da Costa]

Windows Installer CleanUp Utility
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;290301

We have a possible workaround in place for the 101 error. Please test this
and provide feedback on the following steps:

For Windows XP Professional:
To change the setting on Windows XP Professional, open "Local Security
Policy" in Administrative Tools, or run secpol.msc. You need to be an admin
to use this tool. In the left pane, browse to Security Settings \ Local
Policies \ Security Options. The policy name is "System objects: Default
owner for objects created by members of the Administrators group". The
allowable settings are "Administrators group" or "Object creator". Change it
to "Administrators group." After that change has been made, please refresh
the policy by typing: "gpupdate /force" from a command prompt.

For Windows XP Home Edition:

IMPORTANT: This article contains information about modifying the registry.
Before you modify the registry, make sure to back it up and make sure that
you understand how to restore the registry if a problem occurs. For
information about how to back up, restore, and edit the registry, click the
following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge
Base:

256986 Description of the Microsoft Windows Registry
The "Local Security Policy" snap-in is not available on Windows XP Home
Edition. To change the setting on XP Home, you need to modify the Registry
directly. Please back up your registry in case you need to restore it. If
you do not feel comfortable doing this, do not try this workaround.

In Regedit, navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa. Find the value
called "nodefaultadminowner". The supported values are "0" for
"Administrators group", or "1" for "Object creator". Set the value to 0.

Please provide feedback if this is working.

--
-steve

Steve Dodson [MSFT]
MCSE, CISSP
PSS Security
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Andre
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[frosty]

Tried the regedit work around on the Home machine. It did
allow me to uninstall then I reinstalled and still get the
error 101 message. steps took as follows
1. edited the registry per instructions
2. restarted machine
3. uninstalled MSAS
4. restarted machine
5. downloaded newest version
6. installed newest version
7. will not run(error 101)