Re: Cannot change permissions in RegEdit for FEATURE_ADDON_MANAGEMENT.

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Have you tried taking ownership of the registry key in question?

How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421

The above method works for registry keys too.

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Also, try subinacl to modify the permissions for the key in question. You
can download and install subinacl from Microsoft.

SubInACL (SubInACL.exe)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E8BA3E56-D8FE-4A91-93CF-ED6985E3927B&displaylang=en

Now open a command prompt to use subinacl

Type the following:

cd "c:\program files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools"


subinacl /keyreg "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_ADDON_MANAGEMENT" /owner=YourUsername


subinacl /keyreg "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_ADDON_MANAGEMENT" /grant=YourUsername=f


subinacl /keyreg "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_ADDON_MANAGEMENT" /grant=SYSTEM=f


Exit the command prompt and try the install again.


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William Crawford
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User


"BygByrd" <BygByrd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:43FC2F31-9B22-4079-8A33-BEFF0D44FF12@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have been trying to instal Microsoft Visio 2007 Trial version and get the
error message shown at 1 below. As you can see, this refers to a problem
with
writing to Registry Key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_ADDON_MANAGEMENT.

I've searched the Microsoft Knowledge Base for a possible solution and
found
Article 838687 "You receive an error message when you install an Office
program or open an Office program or document" and I've tried all the
fixes
there, without success. Attempting to change the "Everyone" Permissions
simply results in an error message - also shown below.

I'm totally baffled

I'm running Windows XP SP2 with all the latest updates. I am the only user
and have full Administrator rights.

Any ideas on how to solve this problem will be very much appreciated.


1 Visio 2007 Trial Setup Error message:

"Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2007 Trial encounteres an error
during
setup.
Error 1402.Setup cannot open the registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_ADDON_MANAGEMENT. Verify that you
have
sufficient permissions to access the registry or..."


2 Regedit error when trying to change Permissions with
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_ADDON_MANAGEMENT selected.

"You do not have permission to view the current permission settings of
FEATURE_ADDON_MANAGEMENT, but you can make permission changes."

3 I can proceed but with the following results:

"Unable to save permission changes on FEATURE_ADDON_MANAGEMENT. Acess is
denied"

And then on clicking Cancel

" Cannot open FEATURE_ADDON_MANAGEMENT: Error while opening key."


4 Regedit error message when trying to open
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_ADDON_MANAGEMENT

" Cannot open FEATURE_ADDON_MANAGEMENT: Error while opening key."


5 I cannot export, rename or delete the key without getting a
similar error.

6 When I export
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\ and inspect the resultant .reg file there is
no
entry for FEATURE_ADDON_MANAGEMENT.







.

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