Error 1402 Insufficient Access to a Registry Key

[StevenGarcia]

I am getting an error during installation of my LabVIEW 7.0 Express. It is Error Code 1402 and says that I don't have sufficient access to the registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\LVDB.Application\CLSID
As a result, LabVIEW does not get installed.

Any thoughts?

Anyone?

[AndrewAlford]

You need to have administrator permissions in order to install some software packages. What is your OS and do you have administrator rights?.

[StevenGarcia]

I am using windows XP on my home pc. I do have administrator privileges because I am the administrator and I have not had any trouble installing other applications before.

[AndrewAlford]

Do you have a previous version of LabView installed on your computer? If so, I would go to Add or Remove Programs->National Instruments click on change and uninstall any labview products and start from scratch. This error is suggesting to me that the registry key already exists and you do not have permission to change it. Uninstalling all labview software properly sould delete the register key.

[Travis_M.]

Hello,

Please let us know if the suggestions provided by the community were helpful.  If not there might be other things going on here -- such as a virus protector preventing any programs from modifying your registry.  The other users are correct -- you do need administrator privileges to install LabVIEW.  For improved security, some home PCs are set up such that the primary user account is not an administrator by default (a separate Administrator account is used only when administrator privileged tasks are needed such as software installs, and system configurations).

Please let us know if we can assist!