XP SP2 "Acess Denied" & the Fix

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As with SP2 RC2, I am having the same problem with the GA
release of SP2. "Access Denied" during installation.
This is error can be worked around by reading the
setupapi.log under the windows system directory. I am
posting this to see if others are having the problem. For
some reason several registry keys related to windows media
player and a few others do not have any permissions set
for admin and system.

Specifically the following need to have permissions set to
full control for admin & system:

HKCR/vnd.ms.radio
IP6FwAPI.NetFirewallV6Manager
HKCR/WMPlater.OCX/EditFlags
HKCR/Software/Classes/UICTL* may vary
HKCR/Software/Classes/ADDC* may vary

you may have others so check the log for "Unable to delete
registry , Access Denied"

You may need to go thru the install a few times, as you
may fix one set, the next time you run it you may
encounter a new set. The best thing to do is check the
first 3 listed above and the set full control on
permission to HKCR/Software/Classes and its child objects
for Admin and System only.
 

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