[johnla]

Hi
When attempting to install SP3 onto to my current Windows Home Edition XP2 I come up agaisnt a Access Denied error. On windows website it describes a possible solution, I follow its advice which envolves installing SUBINACL, this installs fine and can be found in the following directory"C:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools". After doing so i copy the provided code

cd /d "%ProgramFiles%\Windows Resource Kits\Tools"
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE /grant=administrators=f /grant=system=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CURRENT_USER /grant=administrators=f /grant=system=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /grant=administrators=f /grant=system=f
subinacl /subdirectories %SystemDrive% /grant=administrators=f /grant=system=f
subinacl /subdirectories %windir%\*.* /grant=administrators=f /grant=system=f
secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\repair\secsetup.inf /db secsetup.sdb /verbose

Into notepad and save it as Reset.cmd . This should reset registry and file permissions, however when running this command prompt appears for a fraction of a secound and then promptly dissapears. Using a quick print screen i captured the following message, imaged saved at http://s420.photobucket.com/albums/p...albumview=grid . After another attempted install it comes up with the same error, have tried installing in safe mode comes up with the same error.

Many Thanks
John

[spot]

The first line has control characters in front of the "cd" instruction so the rest of the lines can't see subinacl

To keep the command window when the batch process is finished, Run cmd to open a permanent command window and then run the batch file from inside it. Then it won't disappear on you when it's finished.

Are you sure you used notepad and not wordpad?

[johnla]

Many thanks for solving my problem.