ICONICS2000
25th October 2004 11:15 UTC

Installation Problems with WindowsXP SP2
Has any body experienced any problems of copying files in to the Windows System 32 directory while running Windows XP with SP2, everytime i try to copy some files(OCX and DLLs) into the system32 dir i get copy failed.

If i run the same code on a PC with XPSP1 it works fine no problems

Any ideas?

Afrow UK
25th October 2004 11:19 UTC

This is probably a feature of SP2's 'security' by stopping files being copied to the system dir (that could be dirty files like containing viruses).

I don't know how to get around it though (I do not have SP2 installed.)

-Stu

Joost Verburg
25th October 2004 21:27 UTC

Certain files are always protected by Windows and can't be changed. You can use the Library macros in order to detect it.