Re: [MiKTeX] MiKTeX 2.8 setup failed on Windows XP SP3 with error "Permission Denied"

[Andreas S. <sch...@fa...>]

On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, at 21:12, R. H. Gong wrote:

> Windows XP (...) I got the error message "...Permission Denied..." 
> when running the setup wizard. The problem happened when the setup 
> program was trying to copy a file to the destination directory.

If the destination dir is on NTFS check that Simple File Sharing is 
disabled, that the user you are using to run the setup wizard actually 
_owns_ all files in destination dir and that it has full control 
(permissions).

HTH,
-- 
-- Andreas