DataBase - Replication Issues with Windows 7

Asked By Dave Stabler

09-Nov-09 05:25 PM

I just received my first call from one of our users who just upgraded Vista
to Windows 7.  He now gets the following failure message when intiating a
synch:  "Cannot set the specified Registry parameter for the Synchronizer."

Does anyone have experience with this error and Windows 7?  The application
is running on Access 2007.

09-Nov-09 09:25 PM

=?Utf-8?B?RGF2ZSBTdGFibGVy?= <Dave


it is probably an registry permissions error. One solution would be
to open the Registry editor with explicit administrative permissions
and set the permissions for the EVERYONE group on the synchronizer
registry keys (HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Jet\4.0\Transporter and
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Jet\4.0\Replication Manager) to full
control.

This would be a one-time change that would apply to all users of the
machine.

Before doing it, though, check the permissions on those keys and
report back here what you find. I'd be surprised if Win7 would reset
the permissions in the registry, but it could be that they were set
with user-specific permissions and the upgrade invalidated the SID
of the original user account. Also, it could be a matter of the
synchronizer needing to re-register itself and that could be
happening with the wrong security token.

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