A number of applications including Acrobat Pro, ArcGIS, Visual Studio and AutoCAD can at times fail with error 1603. It’s been a little while since I saw this, but the symptoms are something like:
- Software installations on the machine fails without a clear error message (In our case it was: “Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Failed Installation aborted, Result=1603”). (From OpenLM Software Licensing Blog)
The resolution for this is to set the Registry Size Limit to “unlimited” and then reboot:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\RegistrySizeLimit
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 0xffffff (4294967295)
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