Re: Could not open key:

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Even run installers or uninstallers as an Administrator, it still show same error message.
It was blank in "Group and user Name" for security, The Administrator or Administrators also do not have right to access these keys.
You have manually add the user, Administrators and set permissions and owner to these keys.

I wrote a small program, scan the rgistry and list all these keys (hundreds).
But I still could not find a way to add permissions in the program.


"Richard G. Harper" <rgharper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:u7F2DbSyJHA.5684@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Rather than messing about with rights in the Registry (which is one of the more certain ways to screw your system up permanently) one should instead run installers or uninstallers as an Administrator. The Administrator account always has the necessary rights to the Registry.

"MXC" <mxchen100@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:E996A3A0-E506-4927-868A-D0C5F4CA6351@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
When I uninstall or install SQL Server 2005
I got several error message:

Could not open key: key name.
Verify that you have sufficient access to that key, or contact your support personnel

When I check the permision of these keys, I found that it was blank in "Group and user Name"
I had to set user there manually one by one.

I do not know how the user would be deleted in these keys.
If there are program could scan the regstry to find these keys which no any group or user has the permissions for the keys.

Thanks


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