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re: no access to register key while installing mediaplayer 11 Friday, December 26, 2008 at 12:42 pm Posted by samspade (134 messages posted) most like cause is virus/trojan ,give superantispyware a go to help fix it On Friday, December 26, 2008 at 10:15 am, Musiclover wrote: >Hi, > >I have a Dell Inspirion 6000 laptop and try to install Windows mediaplayer 11 over >wmp 9. >At about 87% installation stops. >In Windows\updspapi.log it says: >access error at HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Mediaplayer\settings\MP3Encoding\Lowrate. >In regedit i even got no rights to acces the folder settings. >Tried everything i found with Google to give myself rights there but nothing works. >(tried to let underlying folders inherit permissions from 'higher' folders, but even >there i ain't got rights) > >Anybody 's got any suggestions? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: no access to register key while installing mediaplayer 11 Friday, December 26, 2008 at 3:47 pm Posted by triplate (20834 messages posted) Sounds like maybe you voted for Yobama???..you aint got no rights. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: no access to register key while installing mediaplayer 11 Friday, December 26, 2008 at 9:02 pm Posted by appleoddity (2369 messages posted) When you select the key that you can not access, click "edit" -> "permissions." In there you can click "Advanced." Click the "Owner" tab, select "Administrators" for the owner and check "Replace owners on all subcontainers." Click APPLY. Ignore any warning. Now, click "OK." and close all windows except regedit. Now, click "Edit" -> "Permissions," again for the same key. Now, under the first screen that opens, make sure "administrators" is listed, and it is set at "Full control." If it isn't listed, ADD it, and give it full control. Click OK, and you now have permissions. I shouldn't need to mention that you DO have to be logged in with an administrator account. That should be obvious if you are trying to install something. :) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: no access to register key while installing mediaplayer 11 Sunday, December 28, 2008 at 6:00 am Posted by Musiclover (118 messages posted) Hi appleoddity, THANKS it works! I had to do it twice, after the key 'settings' the WMP install created a subkey 'MP3encoding' that also had no owner or users and caused the installation to break off. Same trick on that subkey and WMP 11 is installed now. Special thanks from my daughter, because it's her laptop and she needed WMP11 badly to transfer music to her new mp3 player. Music Lover On Friday, December 26, 2008 at 9:02 pm, appleoddity wrote: > >When you select the key that you can not access, click "edit" -> "permissions." > >In there you can click "Advanced." Click the "Owner" tab, select "Administrators" >for the owner and check "Replace owners on all subcontainers." Click APPLY. Ignore >any warning. > >Now, click "OK." and close all windows except regedit. Now, click "Edit" -> "Permissions," >again for the same key. Now, under the first screen that opens, make sure "administrators" >is listed, and it is set at "Full control." If it isn't listed, ADD it, and give >it full control. Click OK, and you now have permissions. > >I shouldn't need to mention that you DO have to be logged in with an administrator >account. That should be obvious if you are trying to install something. :) > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum