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[minimax2000]

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

[minimax2000]

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.micro...949377&x=8&y=16
http://support.micro...kb;EN-US;313222

Frank

[VBScab]

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.

[Glytzhkof]

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.

[minimax2000]

Hello all