Installer fails with error 2203

The symptoms:  
The installation's error occurs during installation IPP package on Windows 7 64-bit machine.


Possible root causes:
This is the problem of the access permissions for file/folder.

Possible root causes:


•1.     Anti-virus software -
If you have a real-time virus scanner enabled, and it happens to be scanning the file in
%windir%\installer at the same time as setup is trying to open the file and install from it, you will get this type of error. 

Solution: This is generally a timing issue, and in this case re-running setup will fix it (try it also after system reboot).  Alternatively, you can disable real-time virus scanning during installation, but if you do this please be aware of the security implications of doing so and either install while not connected to the network, or if that is not possible, make sure to immediately re-enable the virus scanner after setup completes.


•2.     Windows Installer problem.

Solution: Stop and Restart the Windows Installer Service: 

•1.     Click the Windows menu button (formerly the Start button) or press the Windows button on the keyboard.

•2.     In the Start Search box type Services and then click the Services item that appears at the top. 

•3.     Expand the Services window and then scroll down to Windows Installer.

•4.     Right-click the Windows Installer list item and then click Stop, right-click again and then click Start.



•3.     Windows installer doesn't have appropriate permissions to the folder %windir%\installer.

Solution: Set correct permissions on %windir%\installer folder.

•1.     Try going into your Windows folder on your system drive and right-clicking on the folder named 'Installer' and go to 'Properties',
(if you don't "Installer" folder, please see tutorial here to unhide it.)

•2.     From the Properties dialog click on the 'Security' tab at the top of the dialog.

•3.     In the list in the top-half of the dialog, click on 'System' and look at the bottom-half's list and check everything is ticked for 'Allow' except for the 'Special Permissions'.


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•4.     If they are not ticked, click the 'Edit' button and select 'System' again in the new dialog that pops up and then tick them all in the bottom part under 'Allow' (Special Permissions' will be grayed out/disabled, this is normal).

•5.     Click 'Apply' and agree to the message that will popup.



•4.    
Access permissions for %TEMP% folder was unexpectedly changed by Anti-virus.

Solution: Add the Everyone group with Full Control permissions to the Permissions list of the default temporary files folder:

•1.     Click the Windows menu button (formerly the Start button) or press the Windows button on the keyboard.

•2.     In the Start Search box type %TEMP% and then click the Temp folder item that appears at the top. 

•3.     At the top of the Explorer window, in the address bar, click the folder to the left of Temp in the folder path (Local by default).

•4.     In the folder list, right-click the Temp folder and then click Properties and then click the Security tab.

•5.     Click the Edit... button and on the next screen click Add.

•6.     On the next screen, in the large text window type Everyone and then click Check Names - Everyone should then be underlined.

•7.     Check the box for Full control under the Allow column, and then click OK, then OK again, and OK again to close all the windows.

 

Note:

In the case of the similar issues it's required to check the installation log files (as zip archive), which can be found in %TEMP% folder; they have following format: ComposerXE<version>(<date>_<time>).Log  and give us this log file for the investigation the causes.
(as example ComposerXE2011SP1(2012-07-18_11-31-44)).

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