Microsoft KB Archive/888791

= The user rights that are required by Update.exe =

Article ID: 888791

Article Last Modified on 2/6/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
 * Microsoft Windows XP Professional
 * Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit x86)
 * Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition (32-bit x86)
 * Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition (32-bit x86)
 * Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise x64 Edition
 * Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Web Edition
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
 * Microsoft Windows XP Professional for Itanium-based systems
 * Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2002
 * Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition

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INTRODUCTION
Some Microsoft software updates use Update.exe as the Setup program. Update.exe version 5.4.1.0 and later versions require that the user who installs the software update is an administrator with certain user rights. This article lists those user rights requirements.

If a user does not have the required user rights and tries to install a software update package that uses Update.exe, they may receive the following error message:

You do not have permission to update . Please contact your system administrator.

If the software update installation was performed in unattended mode by specifying either the /quiet or /passive command-line switches, this error message is displayed in the installation log. By default, the installation log is located at %systemroot%/KB .log, where  is the number of the Microsoft Knowledge Base article for the fix that was applied.



MORE INFORMATION
To determine whether a software update uses Update.exe as the Setup program for packages released after July 2004, examine the Installer Engine value on the Version tab of the Properties dialog box for the software update package. For packages released before July 2004, you must extract the package contents to determine which installer is used and what version it is. For additional information about how to do this, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

832475 Description of the new features in the package installer for Windows software updates

The following table lists the user rights required by Update.exe.

For additional information about earlier versions of Update.exe and Debug programs that require that administrators have rights, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

830846 Windows Product Updates may stop responding or may use most or all the CPU resources

To determine the missing user right, examine the installation log file. The installation log file contains the following similar error messages:

2.744: d:\aab949b8ae7e35434dde6b\update\update.exe (version )

2.744: Failed To Enable

2.754: Setup encountered an error: You do not have permission to update. Please contact your system administrator.

2.764: You do not have permission to update.

Note represents the operating system name. represents the missing user right. represents the version number.

To view and modify user rights, follow these steps:  Start the Group Policy Editor in either your local or your domain environment. For more information about how to do this, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/gpedit_start.mspx

 Under Computer Configuration, click Windows Settings. Click Security Settings, click Local Policies, and then click User Rights Assignments. To assign the policies listed earlier, right-click the policy, click Properties, and then add the user.

