glad to hear this issue is resolved and thanks for sharing your solution with
us.
indeed i have one tool (reset premission) on hand, but inconvenient to send
it to you in this way.
"Rowland Costin" wrote:
> Thanks for the reply Haqiu, I didn't get a chance to try your solution,
> though I think its similar to the solution I used. I got fed up and rang
> Microsoft and raised an incident. (Free)
>
> It was a permissions issue with the registry. Good old Microsoft support
> fixed it with a batch file that ran through the registry and corrected
> things, though I had to install the resource kit first. This made available
> a program subinacl.exe
>
> I then ran the following batch file in the resource area where the subinacl
> program was.
>
> subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE /grant=administrators=f
> subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CURRENT_USER /grant=administrators=f
> subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /grant=administrators=f
> subinacl /subdirectories %SystemDrive% /grant=administrators=f
>
> subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE /grant=systems=f
> subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CURRENT_USER /grant=system=f
> subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /grant=system=f
> subinacl /subdirectories %SystemDrive% /grant=system=f
>
> I beileve this granted full permissions to the administrator. This fixed
> the windows update problem.
>
> Hope this may help anyone else with the same problem.
>
> Nice one Microsoft.
>
> Thanks to everyone
> Rowland
>
>
>
> "Haqiu" <> wrote in message
> news:92EFAD8A-A20C-4231-BD92-...
> > Step 1 Verify the permission of the relevant registry entries
> > ===============================================
> > 1. Click Start->Run.
> > 2. Input REGEDT32 and click OK.
> > 3. Highlight HKEY-Local-Machine, click Security menu, and click
> > permissions.
> > 4. Click Add, input "everyone" in the pop window and click apply.
> > 5. Check if "everyone" in the user names has the full control check on the
> > allow array.
> > 6. Click Okay to exit and restart to see if it works.
> >
> > Step 2 Verify Group policy
> > ======================
> > 1. Click Start->Run.
> > 2. Input REGEDT32 and click OK.
> > 3. Check the following keys are present.
> >
> > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies
> > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies
> > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies
> > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\policies
> >
> > 4. If they are, right click these keys one by one and choose export to
> > back
> > them up respectively.
> > 5. Delete the above keys.
> > 6. Restart the computer and check if the problem is resolved.
> >
> >
> > "Rowland Costin" wrote:
> >
> >> Hi All
> >>
> >> I am having problems with my Windows XP Pro SP2 Windows update. I was
> >> already on this build, when I had a serious crash and had to reinstall
> >> the
> >> opsys from a Windows XP Pro SP2 disk. All installed ok, but when I go to
> >> Windows update, it says it wants to update windows installer. (This was
> >> done
> >> originally, but I guess that the raw install has put an old one back). So
> >> I
> >> let it try to update and it falls over during the install and says failed
> >> to
> >> update.
> >>
> >> On checking the status under the update history, the error is apparently
> >> 0x80070005. So, I downloaded the KB893803v2 patch from the msdn web site
> >> and
> >> try installing it manually (After a reboot of course!)
> >>
> >> This also fails with the message Set up error, Access is Denied, and then
> >> it
> >> rolls itself back.
> >>
> >> Can anyone suggest where to go from here?
> >>
> >> I assume windows update will not let me make any other security updates
> >> until this is sorted.
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance
> >>
> >> Rowland
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>
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