I’ve been working on a project in Visual Studio 2022, and besides making mistakes while creating it, part of my practice involves generating reports with Crystal Reports.

This is my first time using this product, and I encountered an error that made me lose a lot of time. In my country, this tool is quite well-known and widely used, so I was excited to learn this technology.

However, during the installation process, I kept running into one error after another. None of the tutorials I checked helped, and I even read up on the history of the product all the way to its acquisition by SAP.

The system I am working on is designed to function in 32-bit, but the project I’m developing is configured for 64-bit.

When you download the 64-bit installer from this link, upon running it, you are greeted with the following error message:

Error 1606: Could not access network location \ASP.NETClientFiles\. 

I spent an entire day reading forums and consulting friends, and everyone recommended “installing Visual Studio 2019 and then installing the product.” I couldn’t believe that was the only solution.

Finally, after deep diving into more specific forums, I discovered that I simply needed to run the installer with administrator privileges. I opened a CMD as an administrator, ran the 64-bit installer, and everything worked perfectly.

Note: You must have administrator permissions to install this product.