Windows 7 - Encoding key problem

Djarid · Post by **Djarid** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 9:31 pm

Hi, has anyone managed to get Allegiance running on windows 7?

I got a warning installing dotnet 1.1 mentioning an incompatibility with IIS on W7 but continued.

Allegiance installed fine but when I come to login for the first time it fails to encode the key and then says that "Requested Registry access is not allowed".

It is running in XP compatibility mode with Admin privileges

Any ideas welcome.

Djarid

ogorass · Post by **ogorass** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 12:24 am

Post the full template please. Did you install on the system dirve?
(to be frank, I have no expierience with Windows 7, I would expect, that so do other Helpline guys)

Grimmwolf_GB · Post by **Grimmwolf_GB** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 9:49 am

I installed the beta in a VM, but there were no Virtualbox network drivers for Win7 yet, so I cannot connect to the network to download anything. So far it looks like vista and that does not make me look forward to Win7. Booting it in a VM is probably not a fair assessment of its qualities, but I don't want it to mess with my linux boot loader and I dont have a spare computer atm.

Wasp · Post by **Wasp** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 4:53 pm

Allegiance works great on Windows 7 beta.

Install everything by right clicking the installation file and run as administrator. This allows the program to make changes to the registry.

Afterwards, find the ASGSClient.exe (in the folder you installed Alleg) and right click it and goto properties, click the compatibility tab and select to run as administrator.

Enjoy

BTW, Windows 7 ROCKS!

Djarid · Post by **Djarid** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 9:03 pm

Wasp wrote:QUOTE (Wasp @ Jan 21 2009, 05:53 PM) Allegiance works great on Windows 7 beta.

Install everything by right clicking the installation file and run as administrator. This allows the program to make changes to the registry.

Afterwards, find the ASGSClient.exe (in the folder you installed Alleg) and right click it and goto properties, click the compatibility tab and select to run as administrator.

Enjoy

BTW, Windows 7 ROCKS!

hmm no joy. I even went as far as running process monitor (sysinternals) to identify which registry keys are the problem.

HKLM\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\CTF\KnownClasses and HKLM\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Cryptography\Offload didn't exist.

Creating them and the subsequent values allowed the process to progress further but it still fails with a the error

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• Initializing
• Reading Settings
• Logging Option: SIMPLE
• Loading MRU Callsigns
• Loading Form Position
• Checking Installation
• Checking OOBE
• Ready
• Checking for system updates
• Checking for existing processes
• Saving Settings
• Saving MRU Callsigns
• Checking connectivity
• Using Port: HTTP
• Checking ASGS Client Version
• Client Version: 165
• Server Version: 165
• Securing Installation
• Validating Installation
• Preparing Key
• Unable to encode key
• Requested registry access is not allowed.

thanks Guys

Wasp · Post by **Wasp** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 2:07 am

Lets start from scratch.

Uninstall everything right down to the dot net. Reboot. Yea I know, but it's windows 7 beta, we gotta take the long way to be sure. I uninstalled everything while in "safe mode" to make sure no components were being used by any process. F8 just prior to the windows splash screen during boot will get you into safe mode.

after reboot, right click EACH component (Framework and allegiance and everything under the sun) and ALWAYS run "As Administrator" during the installation process. This is very important, it's not enough that you run the software under admin, you must also INSTALL it under admin.

I had that same problem and this cured it. You don't need to run it under "windows xp" mode. ASGSClient.exe MUST be run under administrator privileges from now on.

Djarid · Post by **Djarid** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 8:35 pm

Followed that process but still no joy.

Did you get a warning about incompatibility with IIS? IIS is not installed though. Oh and not sure I mentioned, it is 64bit version

Grimmwolf_GB · Post by **Grimmwolf_GB** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 11:54 pm

A new version of Virtualbox was released. I will test Allegiance with the 32 and 64 bit version of Win7 as soon as I find the time. (By the way, installing Windows 7 took 15 minutes in the virtual machine! It was incredible)

Wasp · Post by **Wasp** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 1:32 pm

It appears this problem is unique to Windows 7 beta 64bit only. The 32bit version works without trouble.

I'm still looking into it.

Parasitism · Post by **Parasitism** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 3:27 am

Wasp wrote:QUOTE (Wasp @ Jan 24 2009, 08:32 AM) It appears this problem is unique to Windows 7 beta 64bit only. The 32bit version works without trouble.

I'm still looking into it.

I've had no issues with Allegiance on a 64-bit version of Windows 7, well I think it was 64-bit.