Registry edit - administrator disabled

[Danielle]

Hello,
I have Windows XP and I am trying to remove a few viruses from my PC. My
anti-virus program has advised me to remove them manually through by editing
the registry.

However, when I click start, run, regedit I recieve an error "registry
editing has been disabled by your administrator"

I am the administrator, and have two users on this computer, how do I adjust
this setting in order to edit the registry?

Any help would be great!

 

[Guest]

Hello,
I have Windows XP and I am trying to remove a few viruses from my PC. My
anti-virus program has advised me to remove them manually through by editing
the registry.

However, when I click start, run, regedit I recieve an error "registry
editing has been disabled by your administrator"

I am the administrator, and have two users on this computer, how do I adjust
this setting in order to edit the registry?

Any help would be great!

 

[Patti MacLeod]

Hi Danielle,

It may be that W32.Swen is one of the viruses that has infected your
computer, as modifying the DisableRegistryTools value in the registry key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
is one of the changes that Swen makes in order to prevent the user from
running Regedit.

There is a removal tool available from here:
http://tinyurl.com/o0u3

Please read the article over very carefully for instructions on obtaining
and using the tool.



Regards,