I had Acrobat Reader 7.0 and was trying to load 9.3 it got about 90% through and then errored with: Error 1402. Could not open Key. Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 23:40:28, on Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.5730.0011).
Hi,Once again I noticed how small little bugs can make one miserable dealing with these programs. There is the error which comes up while installation of Adobe Acrobat:
'Error 1402: Could not open key [key name] .'
'Error 1406: Could not write value Folders to key [key name] .'
Error Code 1402
A very simple solution which worked effectively for me is as follows:1. Download the Fix_1406ACL.exe which is in a zip format from http://kb.adobe.com/support/acrobat/ts/documents/329137/Fix_1406ACL.zip (imp: please close any install or uninstall window which may be already running)
2. Extract the Fix_1406ACL.exe and run it. (this program runs without any message or window)
3. Install or uninstall the Acrobat Reader now, it will most likely work without any error at all.
Error 1402 Cannot Open Registry Key
Adobe Acrobat X Pro Error 1402
I referred to the adobe article located on http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=329137 for the relevant information. There are also some other ways which I didn't try so if the error exists you can give a try to the same.