error 1402 installing vs 2005

Can you access that key directly yourself through regedit?

Try going there and adding a dummy value (remove it afterwards).

If you don't have access to it, neither will setup.

QuanT at 2007-8-30 >

For any one of a number of reasons, setup is unable to write to that registry key. Since it installs fine elsewhere, there is probably something wrong with the registry on that particular machine.

Since you seem unfamiliar with regedit, there is a risk of causing more damage than may already exist. I would recommend contacting technical support, as they'll need to walk you through this.

They can be contacted at http://support.microsoft.com

Thanks-

-T

TimLa at 2007-8-30 >