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mstumpo

2005-08-15, 5:51 pm

All of a sudden, I am getting an error when I open any local websites for
development.

Server Error: Error 5 opening registry key "\SOFTWARE\Classes\.awm"

Coincidentally, it started after I installed trial of Likno All Web Menus 4.0.

I can open remote sites and edit file-based sites fine, so my guess is it is
a 2002 Server extensions issue, but I can't resolve it.
Kathleen Anderson [MVP - FrontPage]

2005-08-15, 8:48 pm

First thing I would try is uninstalling the trial of Likno All Web Menus
4.0, reboot and see what happens.

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~ Kathleen Anderson
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
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"mstumpo" <mstumpo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A56EEDE9-7BDE-4910-8E7C-2940B40911B4@microsoft.com...
> All of a sudden, I am getting an error when I open any local websites for
> development.
>
> Server Error: Error 5 opening registry key "\SOFTWARE\Classes\.awm"
>
> Coincidentally, it started after I installed trial of Likno All Web Menus
> 4.0.
>
> I can open remote sites and edit file-based sites fine, so my guess is it
> is
> a 2002 Server extensions issue, but I can't resolve it.



Curious Cat

2005-08-24, 8:51 pm

I started getting this same problem last week after installing the latest
security updates from Microsoft.

I have tried everything imaginable to solve it. Nothing works.

Basically, everytime I install any new software, the next time I try to open
a local web in FrontPage, I get the same error message that you get except
that the part after "classes\" is related to whatever software I just
installed.

Sometimes if I uninstall the software that I just installed, the problem
goes away.

I have:

1) Reinstalled IIS and the extensions;
2) Reinstalled FrontPage 2003;
3) Cleaned my registry with RegSeeker.

Nothing works.

Fortunately, I have created restore points that allow me to go back to a
point where the problem doesn't exist.

Near the end of last week, I had to restore my drive from a Norton Ghost
backup because my restore points had become corrupt.

I think there was something rotten in the lates MS security updates.


Curious Cat

2005-08-26, 2:50 am

I found a fix I believe.

1) I removed the FrontPage server extensions using the Control Panel - Add
Remove Programs - Windows Components - IIS - Details.

2) Then, I downloaded the Front Page 2002 server extensions from the MS
Office web and installed them.

3) I don't know whether this last step was necessary but I went to the IIS
administration console, selected Default Web Site and from the right-click
shortcut menu recalculated Server Extensions 2002 Web.

I was then able to open a local web in FP without the "error 5 opening
registry key..." error.

So, the problem was the server extensions. The question is what messed them
up. The MS security updates?


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