Registery Editor Error

[Guest]

Today I installed a new Windows 2000 Server on my system and updated it.Surprisingly, when i wanted to
run registry editor,i received following error message
and couldn't to run regedit:
"Registery editing has been disabled by your administrator".But I am the system administrator myself!
What's the cause of this error and how can I solve it?

Thank you
Bijan Kianifard

 

[Jerold Schulman]

Today I installed a new Windows 2000 Server on my system and updated it.Surprisingly, when i wanted to
run registry editor,i received following error message
and couldn't to run regedit:
"Registery editing has been disabled by your administrator".But I am the system administrator myself!
What's the cause of this error and how can I solve it?

Thank you
Bijan Kianifard

Something enabled the DisableRegistryTools Value Name, tip 119 in the 'Tips &
Tricks' at http://www.jsiinc.com

Were you fooling around with group policy:

Disable registry editing tools
User Configuration\Administrative Templates\System

Description
Disables the Windows registry editors, Regedt32.exe and Regedit.exe.

If this policy is enabled and the user tries to start a registry editor, a
message appears explaining that a policy prevents the action.

See if tip 2942 helps.

Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com

 

[Colin M. McGroarty]

Some of the new viruses also disable registry editor.

Example:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected]

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Colin M. McGroarty
MCP+I, MCSE, NT-CIP

(e-mail address removed)
www.McGroarty.org

Today I installed a new Windows 2000 Server on my system and updated

it.Surprisingly, when i wanted to