When you perform an installation of the SAS^® System, SAS recommends that you have administrator privileges when you perform the installation. You can be logged on as part of the administrator group or logged on as the administrator of the machine.

If you are logged on as part of the administrator group and you are logged on to another group that has conflicting security settings, the stricter one overrides the less strict one.

Here are definitions of different administrator privileges:

• The administrator of the machine

You have full privileges on the machine. This means that you have rights to manage permissions, make changes (install software and change registry), and manage shares.

• Full control on a share

When you have full control access on a share, you can read, write, execute, and you have the ability to change permissions on that share. Nothing more, nothing less. Control has nothing to do with the machine, just that share.

• Part of the administrator group

When a user is part of the administrator group on the local machine, that user has the same privileges as the administrator account. This changes, however, if you are logged on to another group that has stricter permissions. Remember that the stricter permissions take priority.

In some cases though, the administrator of the machine can lock update to the Windows registry. SAS updates the registry. If SAS cannot update the registry, then the installation is not completed properly. In this case, you might receive the following message from the Windows system:



Registry editing has been disabled by your administrator.



If not, wait while SAS attempts to update the registry.

If you are having trouble installing and you are logged on as part of the administrator group, do the following:

1. Cancel the installation.
2. Navigate to the Control Panel.
3. Select Add/Remove Programs.
4. Make sure that no SAS applications are listed.
5. Log off and have the administrator of the machine log on.
6. Perform the installation.
7. Log off and log back on under your own user ID.

One way to check if you are the administrator is to perform the following:

1. Right-click My Computer.
2. Select Manage.
3. Select Disk Management.
   You cannot see the Disk Management if you are not an administrator.

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