PostgreSQL 9 install on Windows: “Unable to write inside TEMP environment path.”

Question

I am attempting to install PostgreSQL 9 (postgresql-9.0.3-1-windows.exe) on my WinXP machine and get the following error at the start:

Answer 1

My solution is similiar to #5, with an Explantion of how and why McAfee ruins your vbscript registration.

Apparently, when I had McAfee antivirus software on my computer, it bashed the vbscript.dll registration that Windows Scripting Host needs to run .VBS files.

In the exported .REG file:

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID{B54F3741-5B07-11cf-A4B0-00AA004A55E8}\InprocServer32] @="C:\Program Files\Common Files\McAfee\SystemCore\ScriptSn.20120327211246.dll"

That SHOULD be changed back to "C:\Windows\System32\vbscript.dll" now.

McAfee apparently installs a DLL that hijacks the vbscript.dll in order to try to protect bad scripts from running. When I uninstalled McAfee in favor of Microsoft

Security Essentials, McAfee did not restore the registry paths ("not my problem"), and the McAfee DLL, of course, was removed from the location during uninstall, so the vbscript.dll registration in fact pointed to NOWHERE and NOTHING.

There has to be a better way to write Antivirus software so that it doesn't disable the user's operating system when it is uninstalled, or when features are turned off, or replace registration. See the following:

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=KB71660

I have a 64-bit OS. The registry path was changed in a number of locations.

The regular class ID should point to the "C:\Windows\System32\vbscript.dll" 64-bit file.

The "Wow6432Node" registry paths should point to the "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\vbscript.dll" 32-bit file.

Yes, the 64-bits are in the "32" folder and the 32-bits are in the "SysWOW64" folder. Microsoft didn't want to change the name of the main "System32" execution folder when it migrated to 64-bits.

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID{B54F3741-5B07-11cf-A4B0-00AA004A55E8} C:\Windows\System32\vbscript.dll

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\CLSID{B54F3741-5B07-11cf-A4B0-00AA004A55E8} C:\Windows\SysWOW64\vbscript.dll

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID{B54F3741-5B07-11cf-A4B0-00AA004A55E8} C:\Windows\System32\vbscript.dll

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Wow6432Node\CLSID{B54F3741-5B07-11cf-A4B0-00AA004A55E8} C:\Windows\SysWOW64\vbscript.dll

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Classes\CLSID{B54F3741-5B07-11cf-A4B0-00AA004A55E8} C:\Windows\SysWOW64\vbscript.dll