Error 1303 on Windows XP Home

Hello

I am struggling with the installation of the Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package. My OS is Win XP Home SP2 32-bit.

I am getting the following error according to the vcredist.log file:

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MSI (s) (78:98) [10:13:14:531]: Product: Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable - x86 9.0.21022 -- Error 1303.The installer has insufficient privileges to access this directory: c:\WINDOWS\winsxs\x86_Microsoft.VC90.ATL_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_9.0.21022.8_x-ww_312cf0e9. The installation cannot continue. Log on as administrator or contact your system administrator.

Error 1303.The installer has insufficient privileges to access this directory: c:\WINDOWS\winsxs\x86_Microsoft.VC90.ATL_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_9.0.21022.8_x-ww_312cf0e9. The installation cannot continue. Log on as administrator or contact your system administrator.
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I have already administrator privileges. Besides I performed a "sfc /scannow" to check whether my system files are damaged or inconsistent. But this did not help.

As last resort measure I tried to install the SP3 but this failed also due to insufficient access privileges.

Any help is appreciated.

Frank

Hello all

In the meantime I have found the solution to my problem.

I needed to run a script to grant administrative privileges to file access and registry settings. Below is the content of the script reset.cmd:

cd /d "%ProgramFiles%\Windows Resource Kits\Tools"
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE /grant=administrators=f /grant=system=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CURRENT_USER /grant=administrators=f /grant=system=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /grant=administrators=f /grant=system=f
subinacl /subdirectories %SystemDrive% /grant=administrators=f /grant=system=f
subinacl /subdirectories %windir%\*.* /grant=administrators=f /grant=system=f
secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\repair\secsetup.inf /db secsetup.sdb /verbose

Some more links covering this topic:

http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben...949377&x=8&y=16
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;EN-US;313222

Frank

To have required such a major reset of access privileges indicates to me that your machine is seriously broken. Who knows what other horrors are waiting for you. If it were me, I'd be rebuilding.

I'd agree with VBScab. However, I remember using a security template file to reset all security to defaults on an old Windows 2000 system once. That worked flawlessly.

Hello all

My system 'was' seriously broken. I couldn't even install certain windows updates and the Service Pack 3. Now all updates are working flawlessly.

According to this article http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/200.../04/739820.aspx this is a valid approach to repair the permissions.

Regards
Frank

This post has been edited by minimax2000 on 2008-12-29 14:53