Creative Communities of the World Forums

The peer to peer support community for media production professionals.

Activity Forums VEGAS Pro Why can’t I run the Sony Vegas pro 9.0 trial?

  • Why can’t I run the Sony Vegas pro 9.0 trial?

    Posted by Stephen Kennedy on May 22, 2009 at 7:37 pm

    I am trying to install Sony Vegas pro 9.0 on my computer but I can’t even open the trial version. Every time I do I get a message saying “Registration requires administrator privileges. Please run Vegas Pro 9.0 from an administrator account to complete registration”.

    I’ve confirmed and reconfirmed that my user account has administrator privileges. Here’s what I’ve tried.

    1. Right click – “Run as administrator.” Failed.

    2. Right click – properties – compatibility – check the “Run as administrator” box. Failed.

    3. Activated Vista’s hidden administrator account, made sure it really did have admin privileges, installed and ran it from there (also granted guest account admin privs and ran from that account). Failed.

    4. Disabled UAC. – Failed (re-enabled afterwards)

    5. Ran it from command prompt as administrator. Failed.

    6. Ran regEDIT application and confirmed full control for all users for Richard Bartlett’s “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesEventlogSecurity” folder key. Failed.

    I’ve also tried numerous combinations of the above and every time I try to run the trial I get the same message. Also, I re-installed the trial every time I tried something different so there would be no mistake. How can I convince it that I do indeed have administrator privileges?

    I haven’t had this problem to this degree with any other software so that’s why I’m posting this here as well as the vista forums in case this is software specific. Has anyone else had this problem?

    Rolf Espenes replied 14 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
  • 2 Replies
  • Steve Rhoden

    May 22, 2009 at 8:27 pm

    Seems that is a Vista related issue…i wont even touch
    that stuff with a long stick…..lol

    Steve Rhoden
    (Cow Leader)
    Creative Arts Director and Film Maker.
    Project Samples at:
    http://www.youtube.com/hentys

  • Rolf Espenes

    October 4, 2011 at 8:57 pm

    I cant open the sony vegas pro trial either. When I try to run it, nothing happans, except, a procces runs for a sec called: “Error reporting client launcher”
    I have tried to reinstall vegas pro 8, 9 and 10, but no trials works..
    Do you know what my problem is? It worked before, but after vegas 10e came nothing has worked for me. I have windows vista.

We use anonymous cookies to give you the best experience we can.
Our Privacy policy | GDPR Policy