Microsoft KB Archive/187537

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PRB: Setup Reports that You Do Not Have Administrative Rights

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Q187537

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Windows Management Instrumentation, version 1.0

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SYMPTOMS
While running the WBEM SDK Setup on a Windows NT system, you might receive an error message indicating that you do not have Administrative rights on the system. As a result, Setup is stopped.

CAUSE
Following are the two possible causes of this message:


 * You are not running on the Administrator account, and the account you are using does not belong to the Administrators Group of the system.
 * You are a member of the Administrators Group (or running as Administrator), but you do not have permission to change certain registry keys under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE hive.

RESOLUTION

 * 1) Log on as the Administrator or a member of the Administrators Group, and rerun the SDK Setup.
 * 2) Use REGEDT32 to give yourself full permissions on the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE hive by starting REGEDT32.
 * 3) Highlight the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE key.
 * 4) Under the Security menu, click Permissions and add the Administrators Group (and the Administrator account, if necessary) with Full control.
 * 5) Select the "Replace permissions on Existing Subkeys" check box.
 * 6) Click OK.

STATUS
This behavior is by design.

Additional query words: kbDSupport kbdse kbNoKeyword WBEM

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Issue type : kbprb

Technology : kbWMISearch kbAudDeveloper kbWMI100