
Click the "Advanced" button and choose the "Owner" tab.Ħ. Highlight "Administrators" and check on "Full Control" under "Accept".ĥ. If not, please click the "Add" button and type "Administrators" in the open windowĤ.

Please check if "Administrators" is listed in the "Group and User" name list.

Right-click HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and choose Permission.ģ. Type "regedit" (without quotation marks) and click OK.Ģ. Note : In Windows XP, click "Start", and click "Run". Click "Start", in the Search box, type regedit" (without quotation marks) and click OK. I suggest we check the related Registry permissions by performing the steps below:ġ. Then, also try the steps to check the permission: General tab, make sure the box is not checked: Encrypt contents to secure data. Properties, click the Advanced button under the You can right clickĬ:\Program Files or other folder you want install the software, and choose To resolve this error, please first make sure that you install the application to a non-encrypted folder. The error message is displayed because the service for the Windows Installer employs the SYSTEM account in the installation of software. Have the Full Control permissions for the directory where the Windows Installer package is being installed in. This issue also occurs when the SYSTEM account does not The user is attempting to install the said application is encrypted and when the drive containing the directory that the user is attempting to install the application to is used as the substitute drive. The error message appears when the folder to which

The Windows error 1603 occurs when the user makes an attempt at installing the Microsoft Windows Installer package.

So any ideas why this error would happen on Virtual Machines but not physical systems, using the same installation media? It happens no matter if I use a Domain Administrator account, or a local administrator account. The process fails in the same manner whether I try to install it from a Network Drive, or from a mounted ISO, or a mounted CD. It does have windows installer 4.5 on it. This Virtual Machine dos not have a previous version of Office on it, nor does it have any Anti-Virus just to test it out. Now I'm trying to deploy it on to a Virtual Machine (VMware), XP and Windows 7, and the installation fails, with the following error:Įrror: Failed to install product: C:\MSOCache\All Users\-C\ProPlusWW.msi ErrorCode: 1603(0圆43). I've downloaded the Office 2010 ISO from Technet and with it I was able to make a DVD and then install Office 2010 onto a system, XP and Windows 7, with no problems.
