PRB: Setup Reports that You Do Not Have Administrative Rights (187537)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Windows Management Instrumentation 1.0
This article was previously published under Q187537

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.
Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:1/15/2000
Keywords:kbprb KB187537
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