ETW Access is denied when registering provider (wevtutil.exe)

Question

I´m trying to register a manifest based provider using wevtutil and get the following error:
**** Warning: Publisher ExampleProvider resources are not accessible.
So I run wevtutil gp ExampleProvider and get the following message:
Failed to open metadata for publisher ExampleProvider. Access is denied
The user account I´m working with have Administrator privilage
and is part of the groups Event
Log Readers, Performance
Log Users, and Performance
Monitor Users.
I have located the problem area and it has to do with the channel.
In the example manifest the channel looks like this:
<channels>
<channel name="MyChannel" chid="MyChannel" symbol="MyChannel" type="Debug" enabled="true" message="$(string.ExampleProvider.channel.MyChannel.message)">
</channel>
<importChannel name="Application" chid="appchnl">
</importChannel>
</channels>
And when I remove this channel and use <default> in the event I get no warnings, do I not have access to write events to that channel or something (Application)?
Thanks

Answer 1

Did you try changing the ownership in safe mode?
When did this problem (AFAYK) start? Can you think of anything which may have happened to cause it? Have you just started to look at Java? Or was SP3 installed recently? Check your Dr Watson log (from memory: right-click my-compter ~ manage ~ event viewer).
... and BTW... wait until you install Vista over the top of XP... Certain files that where exclusively accessible by the old XP Adminstrator are NOT owned by the new Vista Administrator (something about can't change UID's or something, and being opened exclusively during the Vista install) and of course the XP Adminstrator account no longer exists, so the files are verboten, but everything from you virus-scanner to google-desktop-indexer will still try to read them, repeatedly... "... and then Doc, all the little springs came flying out of the box, so I picked them all up (I think), and came to see you... Can you fix it" ;-)
Cheers. Keith.