Bernard,

I was searching Universal Thread because one of my clients had this problem as well. Unable to write to Registry when he is Admin. (He may have been installing on a server - he is out of office for weekend.)

Did you find a solution ever?

I had a similar problem with Install Shield as a user, trying to update Intellisync Desktop Manager for my T-mobile Blackberry mobile phone. Blackberry told me to upgrade to latest Windows SP for my PC, so the latest Windows Installer was in place. Which didn't immediately help. They then told me to uninstall the application, then go into RegEdit and manually remove any references to their Desktop Manager. In your case, and what I am going to propose to my user is to do the same, would be to remove any VFP references and any references to your application. after all this and many restarts of the PC, I was able to get the install to work properly.

Doesn't seem like it should be this hard.

dennis

>I need to install the VFP runtimes on our servers which run Win2K.
>
>I have created a single Installation EXE for this with the option of installing for current user or ALL users. This has been done with the InstallShield version found on the VFP7 CD.
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>Every time I try to install the runtimes START, SETTINGS, ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS and then install, I get 3 very similar errors:
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>1. ERROR 1406: Could not write value "VersionMajor" to key
> UNKNOWN\PRODUCTS\6AAASED....E1435B\INSATALLPROPERTIES. Verify that you have sufficient access to that key, or contact your support personnel.
>
>2. ERROR 1406: Similar message except :
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> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICRO$OFT\WINDBLOWS\CURRENTVERSION\UNINSTALL\{ASD .....etc
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>3. Similar to 2 except the key {....} is different. I just click on Ignore and the runtime is installed.
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>I am logged in with ADMINISTRATOR rights.
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>I have searched all over but have not found any reference to this except a small one on the InstallShield KB site where they blame the Windblows Installer version.
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>Does anyone know of a fix for this?
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>Thanks
>
>Bernard Bout