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0x80070005: E_ACCESSDENIED

Windows Error Code Lookup: Decode Windows error codes: Win32, HRESULT (0x80070005), NTSTATUS, Windows Update, msiexec and blue-screen stop codes, with what to check next.

Paste the number from an error dialog, event log, script or setup log: 0x80070005, 80070005, -2147024891, 1603, 0xC0000005, a stop code like 0x7E, a name like E_ACCESSDENIED, or a few words. You get every way Windows could mean that number (an HRESULT often wraps a Win32 error, so 0x80070005 is "Access is denied" too), its parts decoded, and what to check for the common ones. Names and messages come from the Windows SDK headers and Windows' own message tables; see Microsoft's System Error Codes and [MS-ERREF] for the full references.

Try: 0x80070005, 1603, 0xC0000005, 0x800F081F, 0x8024402C, 0x7E, access denied

0x80070005 = 2,147,942,405 = -2147024891

HRESULT 0x80070005

E_ACCESSDENIED

General access denied error

The account doesn't have permission. Check NTFS and share permissions, whether the program needs to run elevated, whether the file is read-only or in use by antivirus, and, for a service or task, which account it runs as.

Wraps the Win32 error: 5ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED: Access is denied.

Severity (bit 31)1: failure
Customer (bit 29)0: Microsoft
NTSTATUS inside (bit 28)0
Facility7 (0x007) WIN32
Code5 (0x0005)