Re: Installation on XP - Permissions

On Mar 15, 2005, at 6:14 PM, Glenn Sullivan wrote:

> When running the installer on XP, I get to the "Service Configuration"
> panel.
> When I enter the password and click OK, I get:
>      Failed to open local computer policy.       Unable to determine
> user account rights(5).
>
> If I click OK to that, the install continues until it fails complaining
> about needing access to C:\WINDOWS\system32 to write libpq.dll .
>
> The first problem may be causing the second one.  Anyone have an
> idea why It fails to open local computer policy?

I have not seen this error, but I have only used an administrative
account to install (I don't recall reading that this is a requirement,
but I suspect it is since things are installed in the Windows
directory). Can you manually configure services and user accounts? If
not, try switching to the main administrator account for installation.


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