WINDOWS REGISTRY

[Colin Sandall]

Somehow, my registry has become disabled so that I can't get rid of spyware
and such like. The message I get is 'Registry Editor has been disabled by
your Administrator'. I am the administrator and I can't for the life of me
figure out how to get around this.

Can anyone help.

TIA.

Colin

 

[Michael J. Strickland]

You might try looking at the "Local Security Policy" under "Administrative
Tools"
to verify the settings haven't been changed.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

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

 

[Guest]

I had the same problem a few months ago. This might be caused by a virus or a
program that you installed, first scan your pc for viruses and if you still
have the problem, here is the way that fixed mine:

Open Notepad and copy all starting with ('Enable Registry Editing) and save
is as EnableRegistyEdit.vbs
when you finish saving it, double click the file and it will delete the
value that's preventing you from accessing the registry.




'Enable Registry Editing
'© Veegertx - 06/27/2003
'This code may be freely distributed/modified
On Error Resume Next
'Prevents errors from values that don't exist
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
'Delete DisableRegistryTools registry values

WshShell.RegDelete
"HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\DisableRegistryTools"
WshShell.RegDelete
"HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\DisableRegistryTools"

'display message
Message = "You should have access to Regedit now"

X = MsgBox(Message, vbOKOnly, "Done")
Set WshShell = Nothing
Set fso = Nothing

 

[Colin Sandall]

Many thanks to everyone who replied. The problem is now fixed.

Colin