topic ERROR: The SASHELP Portable Registry is missing or corrupted. in Administration and Deployment https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/ERROR-The-SASHELP-Portable-Registry-is-missing-or-corrupted/m-p/35224#M204 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P> Hi Nerina,</P><P></P><P>If you can still open SAS, you can take the code in this SAS Note and submit it to correct the problem: <A href="http://support.sas.com/kb/10/239.html">http://support.sas.com/kb/10/239.html</A> </P><P></P><P>If you can not open SAS, make sure that when you went through the install process that you followed these steps:</P><P><A href="http://support.sas.com/kb/44/390.html">http://support.sas.com/kb/44/390.html</A></P><P></P><P>If you did not (for example: close the anti-virus software) try the installation again following the steps above. If you still have problems, open a track with SAS Technical Support to help diagnose this further. <A href="http://support.sas.com/ctx/supportform//createForm">http://support.sas.com/ctx/supportform//createForm</A></P><P></P><P>Have a super day,</P><P>Sunshine</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:42:40 GMT Sunshine_sas 2012-01-23T14:42:40Z ERROR: The SASHELP Portable Registry is missing or corrupted. https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/ERROR-The-SASHELP-Portable-Registry-is-missing-or-corrupted/m-p/35223#M203 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi, </P><P></P><P>I just installed SAS 9.3 on a Windows 7 pc and everything seemed to install smoothly but at the end when I tried to open SAS I got the following error message:</P><P></P><P></P><P>ERROR: The SASHELP Portable Registry is missing or corrupted.</P><P></P><P></P><P>I can't find any help on this error for SAS 9.3, only earlier versions. </P><P></P><P>Any help would be greatly appreciated. </P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:58:59 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/ERROR-The-SASHELP-Portable-Registry-is-missing-or-corrupted/m-p/35223#M203 Nerina 2012-01-22T00:58:59Z ERROR: The SASHELP Portable Registry is missing or corrupted. https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/ERROR-The-SASHELP-Portable-Registry-is-missing-or-corrupted/m-p/35224#M204 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P> Hi Nerina,</P><P></P><P>If you can still open SAS, you can take the code in this SAS Note and submit it to correct the problem: <A href="http://support.sas.com/kb/10/239.html">http://support.sas.com/kb/10/239.html</A> </P><P></P><P>If you can not open SAS, make sure that when you went through the install process that you followed these steps:</P><P><A href="http://support.sas.com/kb/44/390.html">http://support.sas.com/kb/44/390.html</A></P><P></P><P>If you did not (for example: close the anti-virus software) try the installation again following the steps above. If you still have problems, open a track with SAS Technical Support to help diagnose this further. <A href="http://support.sas.com/ctx/supportform//createForm">http://support.sas.com/ctx/supportform//createForm</A></P><P></P><P>Have a super day,</P><P>Sunshine</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:42:40 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/ERROR-The-SASHELP-Portable-Registry-is-missing-or-corrupted/m-p/35224#M204 Sunshine_sas 2012-01-23T14:42:40Z Re: ERROR: The SASHELP Portable Registry is missing or corrupted. https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/ERROR-The-SASHELP-Portable-Registry-is-missing-or-corrupted/m-p/35225#M205 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Update: turns out that it was nor working because I installed the SAS software before creating the Software Depot. </P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:25:14 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/ERROR-The-SASHELP-Portable-Registry-is-missing-or-corrupted/m-p/35225#M205 Nerina 2012-01-24T02:25:14Z