Re: Error: Windows API error 5: Access is denied.

Dear Jerry,

Your log-file cannot be downloaded. But I met some analogous things on
64-bit machines. There was a problem with access to MikTeX folders created
in your personal profile folder
(in Win7 itis something like c:\users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Local\Miktex,
c:\users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Roaming\Miktex etc.).

In my cases the problem disappeared when I deleted these directories
c:\users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Local\Miktex and
c:\users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Roaming\Miktex.

On Win10 machine try to find all MikTeX directories in your profile folder
and delete them.

Yours,

Andrei Malokostov

2017-06-04 16:09 GMT+03:00 Jerry <[email protected]>:

> While attempting to update MiKTeX, I am receiving the following error
> message:
>
> Error: Windows API error 5: Access is denied.
>
> This is on a Win10-PRO 64bit machine. The log file is available at this
> URL: https://www.seibercom.net/MiKTeX-update-Failure.log
>
> Thanks!
>
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> Jerry
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