I cannot install Guest additions! They always fail with the message "Installation Aborted" and the error log showing this:
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Executing: "C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox Guest Additions\VBoxDrvInst.exe" netprovider add WebClient
Adding network provider "WebClient" (Order = 0) ...
RegistryAddStringToList: RegQueryValueEx failed with 2, key type = 0x0!
Execution returned exit code: 2
Error excuting ""C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox Guest Additions\VBoxDrvInst.exe" netprovider add WebClient" (exit code: 2) -- aborting installation
Error excuting ""C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox Guest Additions\VBoxDrvInst.exe" netprovider add WebClient" (exit code: 2) -- aborting installation
This is extremely annoying, as I will now have to use a text file that is shared as my copy/paste buffer!
Update: Disabling shared clipboard, save, re-enabling shared clipboard and reboot seems to have fixed the copy/paste problem.
Virtualbox is 5.1.24 r117012
VBoxGuestAdditions are 5.1.24
Guest is Win7
Under Settings/Display for the guest, I have tried playing around with 2D/3D acceleration with no change.
Under Settings/Audio, I hav e tried changing to the "Null Audio Driver" with no change.
Any ideas?