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I've run into problems installing software on my Win XP Home. My account is
an administrator, and I have several other administrator accounts on the
system as well. Installing this particular piece of software gives me an
error message related to a DLL being missing during installation. The
Software vendor recommended that I attempt install from another administrator
account on my system. I've tried:

- all of the other administrator accounts on my system
- a newly created administrator account
- the built in administrator account available by safe mode

In all instance, other than my own account the installation fails with a
dialog that says:

You do not have access to make the required system configuration
modifications. Please rerun this installation from an administrators account.

The vendor says tough luck... I've run into similar problems with another
(different) vendor product, and had tracked it down to settings on registry
permissions. I did try changing all the registry keys under HKLM and HKCU,
and that didn't seem to help. In fact windows wouldn't let me change some of
the registry keys... Is there a way to reset all my registry keys to their
defaults on Win XP Home? Secedit doesn't seem to be available there... Is
there a danger to creating a new account and then using my known good
administrator account to reset all the registry keys under that user's
registry settings to allow full access?

Thoughts? Suggestions?

I don't have any other file permission issues, and other software installs
just fine from other accounts. I have it in my mind that somewhere in the
past an anti-spyware tool mucked with my registry settings to 'protect' me...
 
Is there any method in Windows XP for tracing updates to the Windows
Registry? If so, one could determine which key is causing the problem.

I am having exactly the same issue with Win XP Home. I had been running
Spybot Search & Destroy, and uninstalled it, but that didn't help.

The following workaround I saw--
Modify the permissions to the 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software' and the
'HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID' registry keys and their subkeys, to Allow Full
Control for the Administrator, Administrators, and SYSTEM Groups.
--didn't seem to help, either.
 
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