"Failed to update the system registry. Please try using REGEDIT"

IM NOT THE ONLY ONE!!!!!!!!! I feel your pain Larry. Let me know if you come up with a solution.

Ben

Larry Berman wrote:

Just a hunch. Do you have administrator rights?

For me that is not the problem, thanks though, and sorry for hijacking this thread Larry, I am really curious on how to deal with this

Ben

Seth Renigar wrote:

Seth,

I checked out the administrator issue and it's not a problem since I am the in the administrator and power user groups - it's my computer. I've been trying to resolve this for a while and I am aware others have the same problem. Thanks.

Could this be a virus?

I've had really good luck using Ad Aware and Spybot.

Best Regards, Devon T. Sowell

I didn't think this should be an issue with SW either. But the reason I mentioned this is because when I setup our CAM programmer's PC here for the first time a few years ago, we had a very similar problem. I called their tech support and they asked me if the system had admin rights. I did not have this user setup with admin rights. But, their software required admin rights it to run, without those same errors. That is the first time I had ever seen user software that required admin rights to run properly.

Here is the fix for this.

o Error =E2=80=9CFailed to update the system registry. Please try using REGEDIT. =EF=82=A7 This error is typically generated by certain registry keys being set to the incorrect permissions level. Go into the registry and find the following registry entries:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SldAssem.Document HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SldDraw.Document HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SldPart.Document

Right click on these items and select permissions. Change the permissions for these keys from Special to Full Control and Read for both System and the currently logged-on user.

I concur fixed the same problem the same route.

Beautiful! Thanks for the info.

Larry

Ok, so that fixed the issue. But what caused the problem in the first place? Why was the registry change necessary? The OP said he had admin privileges so what caused his install to go awry?

WT

SYMPTOMS When you try to run SolidWorks 2006, you may receive the following error message: SolidWorks 2006

Failed to update the system registry. Please try using REGEDIT. CAUSE This issue can occur if the following registry keys do not grant the Set Value permission to the current user: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SldAssem.Document HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SldDraw.Document HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SldPart.Document

The SolidWorks Service Pack program attempts to write to these registry keys when it starts and generates an error message if it is unable to do so. These registry keys are not generally "writeable" in a secured environment. RESOLUTION To resolve this issue, grant all users the "Set Value" permission:

WARNING: Granting all users the "Set Value" permission on a shared registry key may not be permitted by your system administrator, and/or your local security policies. Because of this, please use caution when you use the following procedure.

1. Log on to your computer as an administrator.
2. Use Regedt32.exe to view the following registry keys: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SldAssem.Document HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SldDraw.Document HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SldPart.Document

Grant all users (everyone) the "Set Value" permission on each of these shared registry keys. STATUS Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

Well I have done this and now I have 2 less buttons to push to get into SW, so it worksed partly. Now I have triple checked the values and all is as it says to do above, but one popup remains. any clue on what key I need to change???

Thanks for the tips though!

Ben

Never mind I found it I was changing the SldAIPart.Document.... Careful there are a few keys that can be misread by skimmers like me....

Ben

But now I am free of the popups THANK YOU ALL