Well, I tried Electrical again and finally appear to have succeeded. I say “appear” only because I have not yet tried to create and save a design, but at least the product installed with no errors and now runs.

I tried several things over a three day odyssey and I wish I could say for sure which thing worked, but I am not 100% sure. I suspect the key was using the actual administrator account in Windows 10. I generally don’t use the Administrator account for normal work, but rather a personal account that does not have admin privileges. Normally, I can use the “Run with Admin privileges” option for things like installations and configuration, but that did not work with SolidWorks Electrical (it worked fine with everything else related to SolidWorks. I then gave the personal account admin privileges and that still did not work. I finally logged into the actual Adminstrator account and that worked, but then only after I went through and uninstalled all programs that had SQL in their name. So, being logged into the Administrator account and going into Control Panel/Programs and uninstalling everything SQL, I just ran the installation and it finally succeeded and Electrical fired up. Now to learn how to use it.

Maybe somewhere it said to use the Administrator account, but I only recall seeing that you needed administrator privileges. It was the Goengineer web site that finally clued me in. They suggested that using the adminstrator account was the best way to get all of the access rights needed. I think this is needed only for the SQL installation and thus why everything else SolidWorks installs just fine from a personal account assuming you have admin privileges. This is what I followed to finally achieve success. https://www.goengineer.com/blog/soli...l-installation