"Access Denied" error when trying to install SP2
http://forum.aumha.org/viewtopic.php?t=8125

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TaurArian [MS-MVP] 2005-2006
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"PaulFXH" <paul_hackett2@yahoo.com.br> wrote in message
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> Hi everybody
> I use a Dell 2.53GHz/256MB RAM machine with WinXP Home as OS.
> Recently as part of a housekeeping exercise (the computer is 3 years
> old) I carried out a Repair-Install of the OS (following Michael
> Stevens MVP instructions).
> As expected, I had to re-install the SP2 for the OS after the
> Repair-Install.
> However, I have run into an apparently never-ending cycle of "Access is
> Denied" errors, fixes and re-runs which fits known descriptions of the
> Chinese water torture very well.
> I am using the article in KB873148 which worked very well for me when I
> installed SP2 for the first time some months ago.
> Now, however, I seem to have run up against a chain of registry keys
> with insufficient permission of the SP2 to install. Once I "fix" one
> problem, another crops up to give me the "access is denied" error. As
> each "trial" takes about an hour and because there are many thousands
> of registry keys awaiting their turn, it is possible I could spend a
> sizable part of the rest of my life trying to get SP2 to install.
> Please help me before I go totally nuts.
> PaulFXH
>