[Elecraft] Re CW Skimmer with Windows 7

[Jim Campbell]

  Nick,

I installed CW Skimmer again (as administrator) and got the same errors. 
You were correct that it was OmniRig giving the error. In any event it 
is now installed.

As an aside, what is OmniRig for?

Thanks and 72,

Jim - W4BQP

On 8/25/2010 7:49 AM, VE3EY wrote:
> I had the same problem few days back when I tried installing it on a
> laptop running Windows 7 Home Premium (64 bit).
>
> I think the problem was not with CW Skimmer but with OmniRig instead
> which comes bundled with Skimmer.  At the end of installation it failed
> to access two registry keys due to its permissions being too restrictive.
>
> You could use Sysinternal's Process monitor and filter by the name of
> the installer utility and "ACCESS DENIED" while running the install of
> the OmniRig and it will find two registry keys in question.
>
>
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx
>
>
> 73,  Nick
> ve3ey
>