Cannot delete a registry key (or subkeys) --- ???

[notaguru]

Vista Home Premium

Regedit, Administrator Privileges

I need to delete a specific key and its subkeys as
residue after uninstalling an app.

The Registry won't let me do that or enter changes, even
in Advanced.

???

 

[Rick Rogers]

Check permissions on that key.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

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My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[notaguru]

Right - but I'm not permitted to change permissions!

 

[Laz]

You have to run regedit.exe as administrator.
Search for regedit on start menu then right click and choose run as
administrator.
Should work.

 

[notaguru]

As indicated in my original post, I'm "Administrator"
and running regedit as such with a right click. Not only
can I not delete this specific app-related key (and the
app is uninstalled except for that item), but in
Advanced I cannot change permissions or access. Strange,
I know... The app publisher has evidently created a new
way to protect data in the Registry.

 

[bomb#20]

As indicated in my original post, I'm "Administrator"
and running regedit as such with a right click. Not only
can I not delete this specific app-related key (and the
app is uninstalled except for that item), but in
Advanced I cannot change permissions or access. Strange,
I know... The app publisher has evidently created a new
way to protect data in the Registry.

Have you tried scanning the registry with RegDelnull.exe ?

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/regdelnull.mspx

It's a command-line program to find registry keys with
null characters embedded in the name.
If it finds any it will ask to delete the null character, then the key can be
deleted by regedit.
I seem to remember I had to use it to get rid of a key written by
Sisoft Sandra a while ago.
..

 

[Communikator]

Hi there,
You might have to deal with a hidden key that the key you want to delete
depends upon. Until that hidden key gets deleted, one cannot delete the
associated keys. Don't know many details, but this happened with a *one*larm
free firewall program on Windows 2000-once it has associated .ZIP with some
mail scanner, I could not restore that file association because I could not
delete that invisible mail scanner entry. That's how I found out about
hidden Registry keys. Nice story, huh ?.. Not at all, I've reinstalled the
OS just because of this
Godspeed

 

[WS]

This is a devestating story !!

 

[WS]

it didn't solve my vmware problem.

Have you tried scanning the registry with RegDelnull.exe ?

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/regdelnull.mspx

It's a command-line program to find registry keys with
null characters embedded in the name.
If it finds any it will ask to delete the null character, then the key can
be
deleted by regedit.
I seem to remember I had to use it to get rid of a key written by
Sisoft Sandra a while ago.
.

 

[notaguru]

Have you tried scanning the registry with RegDelnull.exe ?

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/regdelnull.mspx

It's a command-line program to find registry keys with
null characters embedded in the name.
If it finds any it will ask to delete the null character, then the key can be
deleted by regedit.
I seem to remember I had to use it to get rid of a key written by
Sisoft Sandra a while ago.
.

THAT DID IT!! The publisher had embedded nulls in
certain keys, preventing deletion by ordinary means.

THANK YOU!!