As it turns out, you may run into a couple of obstacles when installing SPSS under Vista. I certainly did. First, when I ran the installation program I got an “internal error 2738,” which a website told me was due to a problem with the VBScript DLL. When I tried to use regsvr32 to register this DLL I got the unhelpful “DllRegisterServer failed with error code 0×80004005.” It turns out that this is also discussed at the bottom of the same website. The key is to run regsvr32 from a command prompt with Administrator priviledges. Here is a post from My Digital Life on how you can open a command prompt with Administrator privileges. This website also gives a little more general overview of error code 0×80004005 when running regsvr32.
Andrew Kun
2 comments
spungy says:
July 15, 2008 at 5:31 am (UTC -4)
hey andrew..your site really helps. i surfed to your digital life and found that it was useful to my daily job as a pc tech.maybe next you can develop your own website that are more helpful and you know “knowledge for everyone”…you rock man!
Bekele says:
August 30, 2008 at 3:50 pm (UTC -4)
I can not able to installe SPSS 12 to my laptop