Re: Error on F1

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From: Pam Ammond (pam_at_empoweringyou.com)
Date: 09/21/04 

Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 20:19:04 -0700

Excellent suggestion. It appears to work.

So, could you explain a little more about why I needed to do this? I
thought that when I installed things as administrator that I wouldn't need to
install them again as the user.

Thanks,
Pam

"Kazi" wrote:

> An idea, maybe working, maybe not:
>
> 1. Add that user to the Administrators group which you use for developing.
> 2. Do the procedure what you have described when that user is logged on.
> Twice or more times. Let windows installer do, what it wants.
> 3. Remove that user from the Administrators group.
>
> Kazi
>
> "Pam Ammond" <pam@empoweringyou.com> wrote in message
> news:6B7363E1-A254-4DF8-A545-F947742C7FC7@microsoft.com...
> > I have Visual Studio 2003 Enterprise Architect 2003, and all updates,
> Office
> > Tools, and the latest MSDN help installed. I can write and run a project,
> > click on content, search, and view help. But when I am in C# code on a
> > method and click F1 for context sensitive help it starts the Windows
> > Installer and says "Please wait while Windows configures Visual Studio
> ..NET
> > Enterprise Architect 2003 - English" then partially through it says
> "Error
> > 1606. Could not access network location wwwroot$: Unable to get security
> > info for this object." When I click ok, it continues farther and brings
> up
> > the same message a second time, then when I click ok it says, "Error 1606.
> > Could not access netowrk location VS Develoeprs (could not create group).
> > then finally it brings up the correct help screen in the main window (in
> this
> > specific case it is the ToString Method [C#] from the .NET Framework Class
> > Library, but it doesn't matter what the method is, it happens each time I
> > press F1). Alternatively, I can Cancel the setup and again it brings up
> the
> > same final result: the correct help screen in the main window.
> >
> > I am NOT logged in as an Administrator, and don't intend to be when I'm
> > programming. All the programs were initially installed and setup when I
> was
> > logged on as Administrator. I do not receive this error when I am logged
> on
> > as Administrator. This limited user is a member of Debugger Users, Users,
> > and VS Developers.
> >
> > So what is happening and how do I fix it?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Pam
>
>
>

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