SolidWorks - Registry problem

Anyone seen this one. With SW 2005 when starting the program a window
apears stating
"Failed to update the system registry. Please try using REGEDIT" The
window appears 3 times then the SW boots up and works with no problem

This started just recently.

TIA for any help.

Bigbear

 

I googled for this. The common thread seems to be that the user does
not have sufficient rights to write to the registry. Are you on a
domain with roaming profiles or do you have just user or power user
rights? Do you have an over zealous IT department?

http://www.mackichan.com/index.html?techtalk/errors.html~mainFrame
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Security/Win_Security/Q_21395883.html
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=943181
http://discussion.autodesk.com/thread.jspa?threadID=356846

 

Thanks TOP

I didn't even think to look it up thinking it was such an obscure and SW
related problem. But apparently it is more widespread than that. I really
appreciate your effort. Strangely, no domain, no IT dept. and I am the only
admin on this machine. Everything was working fine untill a few days ago.

I had done some registry clean up, unsuccessful installs and an uninstall
and reinstall of SW so something in the registry could have gotten fouled
up. Since everything works, I'll keep playing with it and maybe try a win
XP repair after another few weeks.