Can you take control of a key in the registry?

[Bettie Claxton]

I'm running Vista Enterprise SP1 and am up to date with the updates. I have
office 2007 installed as well.

I installed the Community Clips for Office to generate some help videos. I
can't record becuase I do not have access to a particlular CLSID. I've tried
under 3 logons:
1. my logon id and I am a domain administrator and an administrator on the PC,
2. superuser, the account I added during Vista setup and the account I did
the install of CC for O and ran it for the first time, and
3. the built-in administrator, which I had never used before

Under all of the I get an error accessing a CLSID of 80040150, which is lack
of permission. I cannot access the sercurity permission of this under any of
the 3 logon ids. IF this was a folder on a network drive, I would just take
ownership and move on. IS there some way to do that with a key in the
registry?

IF not, is there something else I could do?

 

[Bettie Claxton]

I am aware of the results of messing around with the registry. I always keep
a recent copy on hand, just in case....

I was talking about setting the security of the CLSID at the folder level as
you call it. For other CLSIDs, one or more if the 3 logon ids have
permissions for them. I'm just looking for a way to get access to this one.
And maybe some idea of why this would happen.

 

[Malke]

I am aware of the results of messing around with the registry. I always
keep a recent copy on hand, just in case....

I was talking about setting the security of the CLSID at the folder level
as
you call it. For other CLSIDs, one or more if the 3 logon ids have
permissions for them. I'm just looking for a way to get access to this
one. And maybe some idea of why this would happen.

Sure. Start regedit with Administrator privileges by doing Start>Search
box>type: regedit. When regedit appears in the Results above, right-click
on it and choose "Run as Administrator".

Navigate to the key you want and right-click on it to change permissions.
You might want to simply add "Everyone" to the groups and give full
permissions to the key. Start at the top key and you'll see where you can
have everything below it inherit the parent permissions of that key.

Malke

 

[Milo]

Im not sure if this can still work for you but you can give it a try or look
for an equivalent to such

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...56-d8fe-4a91-93cf-ed6985e3927b&displaylang=en

I am aware of the results of messing around with the registry. I always
keep
a recent copy on hand, just in case....

I was talking about setting the security of the CLSID at the folder level
as
you call it. For other CLSIDs, one or more if the 3 logon ids have
permissions for them. I'm just looking for a way to get access to this
one.
And maybe some idea of why this would happen.

 

[Bettie Claxton]

I'm aware of subinacl but it says it is for Windows 2000 and XP with no
mention of Vista. Does such a tool exist for Vista?

 

[MowGreen [MVP]]

It appears that you haven't seen Malke's reply to your post:

Sure. Start regedit with Administrator privileges by doing Start>Search
box>type: regedit. When regedit appears in the Results above, right-click
on it and choose "Run as Administrator".

Navigate to the key you want and right-click on it to change permissions.
You might want to simply add "Everyone" to the groups and give full
permissions to the key. Start at the top key and you'll see where you can
have everything below it inherit the parent permissions of that key.

Malke
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[Bettie Claxton]

I tried what Malke said before I started the thread. I tried this under all
three logins and the results were the same. It changes all except the ones
that the administrator does not have access to.
--
Bettie

It appears that you haven't seen Malke's reply to your post:

Sure. Start regedit with Administrator privileges by doing Start>Search
box>type: regedit. When regedit appears in the Results above, right-click
on it and choose "Run as Administrator".

Navigate to the key you want and right-click on it to change permissions.
You might want to simply add "Everyone" to the groups and give full
permissions to the key. Start at the top key and you'll see where you can
have everything below it inherit the parent permissions of that key.

Malke
-- MS-MVP Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic! FAQ - http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ

MowGreen [MVP 2003-208]
================
*-343-* FDNY
Never Forgotten
================

I'm aware of subinacl but it says it is for Windows 2000 and XP with no
mention of Vista. Does such a tool exist for Vista?

 

[SG]

I'm running Vista Enterprise SP1 and am up to date with the updates. I
have
office 2007 installed as well.

I installed the Community Clips for Office to generate some help videos. I
can't record becuase I do not have access to a particlular CLSID. I've
tried
under 3 logons:
1. my logon id and I am a domain administrator and an administrator on the
PC,
2. superuser, the account I added during Vista setup and the account I did
the install of CC for O and ran it for the first time, and
3. the built-in administrator, which I had never used before

Under all of the I get an error accessing a CLSID of 80040150, which is
lack
of permission. I cannot access the sercurity permission of this under any
of
the 3 logon ids. IF this was a folder on a network drive, I would just
take
ownership and move on. IS there some way to do that with a key in the
registry?

IF not, is there something else I could do?

Bettie,

Read over this page and you should be able to solve your problem after you
run the SubInACL tool.
http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2006/09/04/739820.aspx

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SG

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[Bettie Claxton]

Sorry it took so long to get back to you. There is a bug in the newsgroup
and Microsoft had to get me a workaround so I could reply.

I ran subacls but it could not update the permission of several keys
including the one I knew about. I'm at a loss to understand how security got
set like this. Since manually setting permissions has not worked and subacls
did not work, any other suggestions?