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:
ERROR: The SASHELP Portable Registry is missing or corrupted.
I can't find any help on this error for SAS 9.3, only earlier versions.
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. http://support.sas.com/ctx/supportform//createForm
Update: turns out that it was nor working because I installed the SAS software before creating the Software Depot.
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