[thoot12]

When installing Office 2003 Pro. on an Windows XP Pro during the install I get the following:

Error 1402 setup cannot open the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINES \ SOFTWARE \ CLASSES \ XMLFILE \ DEFAULT ICON Vereify that you have sufficient permissions to access the registry or contact your information technology department for assistance.

Then it uninstalls itself...

Any ideas?
Thanks,
Trey Hooton

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are you logged in as an administrator? (better yet THE administrator?)

[dsenette]

are you logged in as an administrator? (better yet THE administrator?)

[thoot12]

Yes I am. I Found this info on Microsoft web site, have not tried it yet...

http://support.micro...kb/838687/en-us

[dsenette]

i'd say give those a try...i'd actually start with #3 if i were you as it's the least intrussive (they mean safe mode when they say "clean boot state")

[thoot12]

I just tried #3 and get:
The windows installer service could not be accessed, this can occure if you are running windows in safe mode....bla....bla....bla....


Thinking of tring #1....

Edited by thoot12, 13 July 2006 - 10:13 AM.

[dsenette]

hmmm....let's try something slightly different...

do start > run > msconfig > on the "general" tab untick the box next to "load startup items" press apply and restart...you'll get a message about being in selective startup mode when you log back in...just tell that ok and try to install office...if it's a no go...go back to msconfig and recheck that box

[thoot12]

In msconfig general tab there is no option to uncheck anything, you can only select normal startup (which is selected) diagnostic startup or selective startup which is the one I selected, applied and restarted then when the reboot completed it was back on normal startup...Anywho I also disabled all norton programs and tried again with the same results.....

Trey