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An Administrator Cannot Activate Plus! Digital Media Edition
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Description of the Microsoft Windows Registry
SYMPTOMS
When you use an administrator account to install Microsoft
Plus! Digital Media Edition, and then start any Plus! Digital Media Edition
program, the Plus! Product Activation Wizard starts, and you receive the
following message:
Before you can use Microsoft Plus!
Digital Media Edition on this computer, it must first be activated by a
computer administrator. Plus! Digital Media Edition uses Microsoft Product
Activation to help prevent software piracy.
Please have an
administrator run Plus! Digital Media Edition on this machine and go through
the Microsoft Plus! Product Activation Wizard. Once that is complete, you will
be able to run Plus! Digital Media Edition normally.
When you click
Finish, the Plus! Product Activation Wizard closes. Although
you are logged on as an administrator, you cannot continue to run the Plus!
Product Activation Wizard.
CAUSE
This problem may occur if the administrator registry
permissions on the computer are not valid and you cannot write to the registry
keys.
RESOLUTION
WARNING: If you use Registry Editor incorrectly, you may cause serious
problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. Microsoft
cannot guarantee that you can solve problems that result from using Registry
Editor incorrectly. Use Registry Editor at your own risk.
To resolve this problem, give the administrator account
write permissions to the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE registry key:
- Click Start, click Run,
type regedit, and then click
OK.
- Right-click HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, and then
click Permissions.
- In the Group or user names box, click
Administrators. In the Permissions for
Administrators box, click to select the Full Control
and Read check boxes under Allow.
- In the Group or user names box, click
Everyone. In the Permissions for Everyone
box, click to select the Read check box under
Allow.
- Click Apply, click OK,
and then quit Registry Editor.
- Start any Plus! Digital Media Edition program. When the
Plus! Product Activation Wizard starts, activate Plus! Digital Media
Edition.
STATUS
Microsoft
has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed
at the beginning of this article.
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition
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