BUG: MSDN Library Setup Error in the Registration Database

ID: Q240306

The information in this article applies to:

MSDN Library
Microsoft Windows 2000

SYMPTOMS

When an MSDN Library CD-ROM begins to automatically run Setup on a computer running Windows 2000, the following error may occur:

Setup Initialization Error: Setup has encountered an error in the Registration Database.

CAUSE

This error occurs when Setup is run by a member of the Users group on Windows 2000. Users do not have the necessary permissions to access the registry during setup. MSDN Library Setup attempts to access the registry before it determines that the user running Setup does not have administrator privileges.

RESOLUTION

An administrator of the computer must log on and install the MSDN Library for the user.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

Administrative privileges are required to install the MSDN Library. The limited access that a user has to the registry is by design.

REFERENCES

For additional information about problems that members of the Users group may have with MSDN, please click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q240307 BUG: Unable to Change Preferred Help Collection on Windows 2000

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbHTMLHelp kbMSDN kbWinOS2000bug kbDSupport kbGrpDSTools
Version : WINDOWS:; winnt:
Platform : WINDOWS winnt
Issue type : kbbug