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getting an error registry editing has been disabled by the
administrator. I am the admin, how can I enable it?
Here -- right or wrong -- is how I managed to stop
getting the message "Registry editing has been disabled."
In my case, I was getting it from a program called PCDOC
On Call Repair which wasn't able to edit
the registry in order to permanently fix some recurring
problems.
After I did the following, I no longer got that message
from the program. Presumably it was
able to get into my registry and fix what was wrong.
Now, I don't know anything about this stuff
so I can't recommend these steps to anyone. Perhaps you
should check with someone whom you know to be an expert
before doing this, I did it, though, and lived.
1. Windows search for "regedit.exe"
The correct hit had an icon that looked like a blue
Rubik's cube coming apart.
2. Left click on icon to open the program
3. Down the left hand side were five folders beginning
with HKEY_
4. I right-clicked on each of the folders, and selected
Permissions from the menu
5. Rightly or wrongly, I checked the boxes under Allow
for Full Control and Read for just about every user in
every HKEY folder (I'm the only one who uses my computer;
I saw a "user unknown" once, and did not allow control
for that one). These are the folders, btw, not the
files. I didn't expand the folders.
The next time I ran my fixit program, I no longer got
the "registry editing disabled" message.
Try this at home at your own risk ...
Good Luck,
Gord Lindsay
