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Success at last! I temporarily switched of the internet security, and it facilitated the installation of the software.

Many thanks for your assistance and your patience!

I followed steps 1 and 2 without a problem. When I got to 3 everything goes fine until the installation is almost completed. The I get: "Installing - Please wait while setup installs Audacity 1.3 Beta (Unicode) on your computer Creating registry entries... " Then right near the end of the ...

I've tried Audacity 1.3.11 and I get the same error message. During the process it wouldn't let me direct the download to the 'Programs' file; I had to go to a users file. It said I didn't have the necessary permissions for the programs file, which seems odd given that it's a home computer and I've ...

I've had a go at that, but without success. However, under 'Audacity Properties/compatability' I don't get the option to choose Vista under "run this program in compatability mode for:" The nearest is Windows XP (service pack 2), but that doesn't seem to work. The Audacity version that I'v...

Thanks for the response.

Yes, I attempted to install the item under Administrator user rights.

I am trying to install Audacity for the first time, and I'm getting an error message: Error creating registry key: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.AUP RegCreateKeyEx failed; code 5. Access is denied If I click on "ignore" it seems to go through a number of files and then aborts the installation. What do...