My guess is that, as an administrator, you somehow revoked some of your own rights — admins can do that, since they’re admins. 🙂
With the “Simple File Sharing” unchecked via the Control Panel > Folder Options,
here’s what the Security tab looks like for my C: drive (right-click the C: drive, click “Properties”)
(side notes: “Cystem” is the name of my C: drive, “Scarmiglione” is the name of my computer)
I’d like you to double-check that you have the same permissions set for both the “Administrators” and “SYSTEM” account here.
(On my system, “CREATOR OWNER” and “Everyone” only had “Special Permissions” checked and “Users” had “Read & Execute”, “List Folder Contents”, and “Read” checked. None of the Group or User account types had any “Deny” options checked. These, I believe, are all still on the system defaults.)
You might have other group or user account types as well, but I think the important ones in this case are just Administrators and SYSTEM (assuming your admin account is part of the “Administrators” group).
If your permissions vary, I *think* that setting them on the C: drive itself should cascade any changed permissions down to any subfolders by default. You can set up some dummy folders and test all of that if you like. And I think the Advanced tab gives even more fine control over this.
If your permissions are set up the same as shown/described, I would check the permissions settings for “C:WINDOWS” and, if it exists, the “Installer” subfolder. And finally, if it exists (maybe even after attempting the install), the .msi file itself.
Checking to be certain that your user account is in fact part of the Administrators group isn’t a bad idea either.
Rather than going through the Control Panel > User Accounts (which I rarely find helpful), a quick place you can check this is via Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management.
Once open, go to Computer Management > System Tools > Local Users and Groups > Groups
Double-click the Administrators group to bring up it’s description and list of members.
If your personal login is not listed as one of the members, then it’s not a part of the Administrators group.
Here’s my “godprobe” personal user login listed in my Computer Management window…
Disclaimer: this may not be your issue at all! 😀
But at least you have some things to check. 🙂
And like Rogue mentioned previously, the difference between 1.2.3 and 1.2.4 Cocktail may not even be worth worrying about.
Good luck!
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