John Luif

Recently I install SP2 on my Windows 2003 VM and then attempted to uninstall and reinstall IIS.  To my surprise when I tried to reinstall IIS an error was thrown saying it could not find convlog.exe.  So I browsed to convlog.exe and then I was told that setup cannot copy the file.  Smells like a security problem to me.  After searching for some time I came across these steps posted on a forum about not being able to install any windows component.

1. Determine if secedit.sdb is corrupt by running esentutl /g %windir%\security\database\secedit.sdb.
2. Try to restore secedit.sdb from a backup before the problem started.
3. If secedit.sdb is corrupt, attempt a soft recovery first by running esentutl /r edb in the %windir%\security directory.
4. If soft recovery fails, attempt a repair with esentutl /p %windir%\security\Database\secedit.sdb. Then delete the log files %windir%\security\*edb* and %windir%\security\*log.
5. Rebuild secedit.sdb. Delete the following files: %windir%\security\*edb*, %windir%\security\*log, and %windir%\security\database\secedit.sdb.
6. Restart the computer.
   

I did not have to do step 5.  The interesting thing was is it looked like nothing was corrupt, the soft recovery completed successfully but still not luck; at least not until step 4.  Doing a repair and deleting the log files then restarting seemed to do the trick.