Ya know, that's a good point. I would check but I already wiped the drive
and started from scratch. The computer was all crapped out from being a
testbed computer, anyways, it needed a good cleaning. Thinking about it,
though, for some ungodly reason, it could have had the permissions screwed
up on it, although I was logged in with administrator privileges.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of James ''Wez''
Weatherall
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 2:47 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Registry Error
Have you checked the permissions on the key, with regedt32?
James "Wez" Weatherall
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Bostedor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 6:31 PM
Subject: Registry Error
> Ok, this one has got me stumped. I had VNC 3.3.3 installed. I uninstalled
> it, then installed the Tridia flavor latest version. I didn't like the
> infinate auto-retry feature of the client, so I uninstalled, then
> reinstalled VNC 3.3.3 and rebooted in between all of these steps. Now, I
> try to install the VNC service and it tells me that it can't because some
> process is locking the registry keys needed. I stopped all services and
> killed all processes that I could, then tried again and got the same
error.
> I opened regedit and found the keys in question to be:
>
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Enum\Root\LEGACY_WINVNC]
> "NextInstance"=dword:00000001
>
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Enum\Root\LEGACY_WINVNC\0000]
> "Service"="winvnc"
> "Legacy"=dword:00000001
> "ConfigFlags"=dword:00000000
> "Class"="LegacyDriver"
> "ClassGUID"="{8ECC055D-047F-11D1-A537-0000F8753ED1}"
> "DeviceDesc"="VNC Server"
>
> If I try to even read the contents of these keys, it says there is an
> error reading the key. If I try to delete it, it says there was an error
> deleting the key. I rebooted to safe mode and tried there and got the
same
> thing. How the #@$$ do I remove this key? Right now, I am sitting with
no
> installation of VNC on this computer and all traces of it removed except
for
> this key. Any ideas?
>
> BTW, this is a Windows 2000 Pro box with SP1.
>
> Steve Bostedor
> http://tgcs.web-it.com
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