Setup failed (Could not write value devenv.exe to key \SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BLOCK_CROSS_PROTOCOL_FILE_NAVIGATION)

Question

Hello, all,
I encounter a really confused problem while installing Visual Studio 2013 Professional.
It say Install cannot continue because some required components failed.
And there is error information given by log file.
[1868:0558][2015-04-18T00:55:46]i000: MUX:  ExecuteError: Package (vs_devenv) failed: Error Message Id: 1406 ErrorMessage: Could not write value devenv.exe to key \SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BLOCK_CROSS_PROTOCOL_FILE_NAVIGATION.
  Verify that you have sufficient access to that key, or contact your support personnel.
[2058:2044][2015-04-18T00:55:47]e000: Error 0x80070643: Failed to install MSI package.
[2058:2044][2015-04-18T00:55:47]e000: Error 0x80070643: Failed to execute MSI package.
[1868:0558][2015-04-18T00:55:47]e000: Error 0x80070643: Failed to configure per-machine MSI package.
Strange is that I cannot even find the key FEATURE_BLOCK_CROSS_PROTOCOL_FILE_NAVIGATION under
FeatureControl.
I have searched in Internet, but no one gives out a effective way to solve this problem.
Could you help me!!! Thank you very much.

Answer 1

Hello Forever_fzf,
The problem is that Visual Studio is trying to write that key to your OS but failed. There are many possible reasons so it is hard to check it just from the above error info, I think you can take the following actions to test whether they can fix your problem:
1. It is possible the the source(the installer) is corrupt on your OS. So our first step is to check the source. Please download the ISO format and verify its hash checksum sha-1 value by refer to the following page:
https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/downloads/visual-studio-2013-iso-sha1-vs
2. If the source is alright, check that you are administrator and you have ran the setup as administrator. If you've already checked that and you still do not have privilege when install. We need to refer to the following blog:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astebner/archive/2006/09/04/solving-setup-errors-by-using-the-subinacl-tool-to-repair-file-and-registry-permissions.aspx
It contains a script, the script will involve subinacl tool to give all registries the Admin privilege, then you will be able to write keys to that registries.
3. The reigistry key HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BLOCK_CROSS_PROTOCOL_FILE_NAVIGATION sounds related to IE. May I also know your IE version?
Best regards,
Best regards, 
Barry
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