Modification to SAP Logon Cannot be written to INI file

Question

Hi,
When i am trying to create a New Item in SAP logon it is giving an error "Modification to SAP logon could not be Written to INI file
Check permission for file 'C:\Windows'.
The problem is that, this is showing even when i m logged in as "XXXADM".
I have Reinstalled the SAP GUI, but the problem is as it is.
OS: WINDOWS 2003 server
Database: Oracle.
Please help me.
Thanks in advance,
Sharib

Answer 1

I had this same problem under a VISTA Enterprise client setup.  I tried all the various recommendations, including setting the SAPLOGON_INI_FILE environment variable to point to c:\windows\saplogon.ini.  None of these changes worked, I even modified the file ownership to match up with my logged on user without success.
I then looked at the shortcut for launching SAPLOGON, and tried to set the shortcut to run as an Administrator.  That option was greyed out.  I deleted the shortcut, and re-created it.  Still unable to save changes.  I then set the new SAPLOGON shortcut to execute as the administrator, and once I confirmed that I trusted the program, everything is now working as it should.
Not content to leave it this way, I moved my saplogon.ini file OUT of the c:\windows directory and instead placed it in the directory pointed to by %USERPROFILE%\saplogon.ini .  I updated the environment variable setting and also removed the falg to execute the shortcut as the system administrator.
Now everything is working as it should without any special hoops -- seems that even with full access, VISTA security would not let a domain user that was part of the PC's Administrators account to edit the file w/o running as the system administrator.
Edited by: David L. Flad on Oct 30, 2009 4:02 AM