I receive an error trying to install Service Pack 4 for NT 4.0.

John Savill

March 4, 1999

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A. If when installing Service Pack 4 you receive the error:

"Service Pack Setup Error. You do not have permissions to updateWindows NT. Please contact your system administrator."

it may be caused by the update.exe image being in the wrong directory.

If you have expanded the service pack using nt4sp4i.exe /x it willcreate a subdirectory, update, which will include the files

  • Update.exe

  • Update.inf

  • Update.nvt

When running update.exe it must be in the update subdirectory. If notyou should move the image accordingly.

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