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The installer works great. Thanks, AsciiWolf!

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Installing Avira AntiVir Personal Edition on Windows Server 2008 R2:

@http://expertester.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/windows-server-2008-as-superworkstation wrote:

1.) Start –> Run –> Regedit
2.) Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE –> SYSTEM –> CurrentControlset –> Control
3.) Now change the permissions of the folder “ProductOptions” –> add your user account (for example ComputernameUsername) and deny yourself the read rights for the whole folder. Be careful not to deny the whole rights for all administrators or something like that (I tried that first cause of a black out and it leads to windows not being able to boot).
4.) Now you should be able to install Antivir PE

In case you want to revert the permission settings just log to your administrator account. Here you can again grant your user account full rights for “ProductOptions”.

Program Name: Avira AntiVir Personal Edition
Website: http://www.freeav.com
Compatible: yes, with a hack
Issues: installer throws an error saying the product cannot be installed on a server OS
Fix: http://expertester.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/windows-server-2008-as-superworkstation (scroll down to comment #2; article is about Server 2008, but the workaround described works on R2 as well)

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