Regedit Disabled

[Guest]

I'm an administrator of Windows network with respective admin privilidges. I
log in as the Administrator account, and I can run regedit on my laptop -
setup with Windows XP professional. When I log in as myself - even though I
am part of the Administrators group, I am not allowed to run regedit from my
laptop. I get the message "Registry editing has been disabled by your
administrator."
How do I enable this feature for my account and/or what group policy do I
change for my account (please advise as towards how I do this).

Tnks Always.

 

[Tom Pepper Willett]

See:

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/tweakuirest.htm


| I'm an administrator of Windows network with respective admin privilidges.
I
| log in as the Administrator account, and I can run regedit on my laptop -
| setup with Windows XP professional. When I log in as myself - even though
I
| am part of the Administrators group, I am not allowed to run regedit from
my
| laptop. I get the message "Registry editing has been disabled by your
| administrator."
| How do I enable this feature for my account and/or what group policy do I
| change for my account (please advise as towards how I do this).
|
| Tnks Always.

 

[Guest]

This allows me to now edit the group policy - and I thank you kindly. But
I'm still not able to run the regedit program for my login ID, DSample
(example login id). I did add the key "DisableRegistryTools REG_DWORD
0x00000000 (0)" to the following folder from the Administrator account -
using regedit -
\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System.
Again, can't run regedit from my login account (that has Admin group
settings).

Any other suggestions/articles. Tnks always.

 

[TaurArian]

Not sure if this helps because I don't have WinXP Pro

Start/Run/gpedit.msc. User Configuration/Administrative Templates/Windows
Components/Windows Update. In the right pane, double click, Remove access to all
Windows Update Features and set it to disabled.

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_winupd_netpolicy.htm
Removes Policy Setting that disables Windows Update – Windows XP
If you receive the following error:
Access Denied
Network policy settings prevent you from using Windows Update to download and install
updates on your computer.
If you believe you have received this message in error, please check with your system
administrator.

 

[Guest]

I did have the item "Remove access to use all Windows Update features"
disabled, yesterday pm - per technical article Q326686 - and this does not
resolve issue. I did also run the xp_winupd_netpolicy.vbs script file from
the download site per your advise - and this also didn't resolve issue. I
still have the following issues - regedit : "Registry editing has been
disabled by your administrator"; Windows Update : "Network policy settings
prevent you from using Windows Update to download and install updates on your
computer. [Error number : 0x8DDD0003]".
There's some other setting on network server that's overriding what's on
laptop setup - I'm not sure what else to do. Any other suggestions?

 

[Guest]

I researched another download from www.dougknow.com/xp/ - Security |
Disable/Enable Registry Editing Tools in Windows script, regtools.vbs.

I downloaded this, ran script, rebooted laptop - and I can now access the
registry using regedit tool.

Only issue that now remains is Windows Update : "Network policy settings
prevent you from using Windows Update to download and install updates on your
computer [Error number : 0x8DDD0003]". Any other suggestions?

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

I researched another download from www.dougknow.com/xp/ - Security |
Disable/Enable Registry Editing Tools in Windows script, regtools.vbs.

I downloaded this, ran script, rebooted laptop - and I can now access the
registry using regedit tool.

Only issue that now remains is Windows Update : "Network policy settings
prevent you from using Windows Update to download and install updates on your
computer [Error number : 0x8DDD0003]". Any other suggestions?

Hi,

Try this:

Start/Run ==> regedit.exe

Under the registry key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
\Policies\Explorer

delete the value "NoWindowsUpdate" if it exist.


Under the registry key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
\Policies\Windows Update

delete the value "DisableWindowsUpdateAccess" if it exist.


Under the registry key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
\Group Policy Objects\LocalUser\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Policies\Windows Update

delete the value "DisableWindowsUpdateAccess" if it exist.


If the above values was not found:

Do a registry search (in regedit.exe, be sure to have "My Computer"
selected when starting each search)) for registry values with name

NoWindowsUpdate

and
DisableWindowsUpdateAccess

and delete if found.

 

[Guest]

I've changed DisableWindowsUpdateAccess from 1 to 0 - and issue resolved.

Tnks a million.

p.s. My initial problem was caused I think by not being able to run
regedit. I was attempting to do all these things after logging in as
Administrator account - to no avail. Once I got regedit to work under MY
user login name, then I ran the regedit tool and changed appropriate key
value from 1 to 0 and it works fine. Also, I had to set the security
permissions on the key for my id - so all is well.

Again - thanks all for your help.

I researched another download from www.dougknow.com/xp/ - Security |
Disable/Enable Registry Editing Tools in Windows script, regtools.vbs.

I downloaded this, ran script, rebooted laptop - and I can now access the
registry using regedit tool.

Only issue that now remains is Windows Update : "Network policy settings
prevent you from using Windows Update to download and install updates on your
computer [Error number : 0x8DDD0003]". Any other suggestions?

Hi,

Try this:

Start/Run ==> regedit.exe

Under the registry key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
\Policies\Explorer

delete the value "NoWindowsUpdate" if it exist.


Under the registry key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
\Policies\Windows Update

delete the value "DisableWindowsUpdateAccess" if it exist.


Under the registry key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
\Group Policy Objects\LocalUser\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Policies\Windows Update

delete the value "DisableWindowsUpdateAccess" if it exist.


If the above values was not found:

Do a registry search (in regedit.exe, be sure to have "My Computer"
selected when starting each search)) for registry values with name

NoWindowsUpdate

and
DisableWindowsUpdateAccess

and delete if found.


--
torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/default.mspx

 

[Guest]

David,
I am encountering exactly the same problem you had before.
How did you resolve yours?
I tried downloading the vbs file from htt://www.dougknow.com/xp but for some
reason I could not find the file anymore.
Is there another way of fixing this problem?
Appreciate any help I can get.

 

[Guest]

Ignore me. I already found the fix.

David,
I am encountering exactly the same problem you had before.
How did you resolve yours?
I tried downloading the vbs file from htt://www.dougknow.com/xp but for some
reason I could not find the file anymore.
Is there another way of fixing this problem?
Appreciate any help I can get.

 

[Guest]

I am haveing the same prob. how do you fix that??

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Registry Editing has been disabled by your administrator
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/tweakuirest.htm

Or...
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
213. Disable or Enable Registry Editing Tools

Click on Enable
for disableregistrytoolsundo.reg

Right click disableregistrytoolsundo.reg and select Merge.
--------

If that does not work...

Download regtools.vbs from here...

regtools.vbs - Disable/Enable Registry Editing tools in Windows
http://www.dougknox.com/security/scripts_desc/regtools.htm

© Doug Knox - rev 01/10/2000
This code may be freely distributed/modified.

Usage: Download regtools.vbs Save the file to the folder of your choice.
Double click the VBS file. The VB Script file will check for the appropriate
value and if not found will create it. If the value was found, it will be
toggled to its opposite state and you will be informed that you need to log
off/back on or restart your computer. One note. This change is made in
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System. Disabling
the tools takes effect immediately. Enabling requires a restart. This
script can be viewed in Notepad or any text editor, as to the specific
Registry key and value that are updated. Your antivirus software may report
this script as potentially malicious, or a possible virus. This is because
the script writes to the System Registry.

It uses a vbs file instead of the REG command. After using regtools.vbs,
reboot.

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "samref" <[email protected]>

| I am haveing the same prob. how do you fix that??
|


Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe

To use this utility, perform the following...
Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
Choose; Unzip
Choose; Close

Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }

NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go through your
FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.

C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal Mode.
This way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor's web site.
The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky, Exit this menu and Reboot the PC.

You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you can
download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the files
needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key
during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in Safe
Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.

When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive PDF help
file. http://www.ik-cs.com/multi-av.htm

Additional Instructions:
http://pcdid.com/Multi_AV.htm


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