How do I Enable registry editing?

[Guest]

Installing certain programs I receive the message "Your administrator has
disable registry aditing." If I type the comand regedit, I receive the
message too. I do not recall having disable registry aditing. Anyway, how do
I enable registry editing again?

Please, help.

E Viera

 

[Manuel Maza]

one vbs script to enable the registry editing

http://www.dougknox.com/security/scripts_desc/regtools.htm

Another thing you could try;



1. Disable as much as you can from your startup. Remove programs from your
startup folder and such, so as not to lag down the bootup process.

2.Create a new shortcut on your desktop, point it to
"C:\Windows\regedit.exe"

3.Log off, then log back on

4.As soon as you see your desktop, double click on the shortcut. The system
does not check for policies until a few seconds after it booted up. If you
click on the icon fast enough, it should let you get in.

After that, do all you need. After you close it though, it will not open
unless you redo step 3 and 4.

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Viera" <[email protected]>

| Installing certain programs I receive the message "Your administrator has
| disable registry aditing." If I type the comand regedit, I receive the
| message too. I do not recall having disable registry aditing. Anyway, how do
| I enable registry editing again?
|
| Please, help.
|
| E Viera


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


* * * Please report back your results * * *

 

[Steven L Umbach]

You may have a malware or spyware problem and should proceed accordingly as
David suggests as often malware will disable registry editing in an attempt
to prevent you from doing repairs. Having said that you could logon as an
administrator, open a command windows and use the AT command to try to open
regedit two minutes in the future from the current time and as an example if
the current time was 6:30 PM use AT 18:32 /interactive regedit.exe . If that
works look for and delete the registry key below to give your self normal
access. --- Steve

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\DisableRegistryTools:
0x00000002

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Steven L Umbach" <[email protected]>

| You may have a malware or spyware problem and should proceed accordingly as
| David suggests as often malware will disable registry editing in an attempt
| to prevent you from doing repairs. Having said that you could logon as an
| administrator, open a command windows and use the AT command to try to open
| regedit two minutes in the future from the current time and as an example if
| the current time was 6:30 PM use AT 18:32 /interactive regedit.exe . If that
| works look for and delete the registry key below to give your self normal
| access. --- Steve
|
| HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\DisableRegistr
| yTools: 0x00000002
|


That's correct Steven. The Multi AV Scanning Tool can do two things...

1. Identify and remove an infector.
2. Correct the Local and Group Policy modifications made by malware. Malware will often
limit the user's capability as an act of "self preservation". Disabling the Registry is
such an act.

However this is incorrect...

| HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\DisableRegistr
| yTools: 0x00000002
|
|

The following examples are correct...

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"DisableRegistryTools"=-

or

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"DisableRegistryTools"=DWORD:00000000

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...s/2000/server/reskit/en-us/regentry/58869.asp

Either the value is NOT present, set to "0" or set to "1"

O = disabled which is the same as not being present.
1 = enabled

I want to also note the following is also needed

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"DisableTaskMgr"=-

or

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"DisableTaskMgr"=-DWORD:00000000

So the actual solution would be to create a REG file from the below or delete the following
two...
"DisableTaskMgr" and "DisableRegistryTools"
from
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System


REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"DisableTaskMgr"=-
"DisableRegistryTools"=-

 

[Steven L Umbach]

Hi David.

My suggestion was to delete the registry key and not set the value to 2. I
grabbed that key from the output of regshot on my computer. XP SP2 can have
a value of 2 which equates to prevent access to registry editing
tools/disable regedit from running silently - no as shown in Group Policy
settings. --- Steve

From: "Steven L Umbach" <[email protected]>

| You may have a malware or spyware problem and should proceed accordingly
as
| David suggests as often malware will disable registry editing in an
attempt
| to prevent you from doing repairs. Having said that you could logon as
an
| administrator, open a command windows and use the AT command to try to
open
| regedit two minutes in the future from the current time and as an
example if
| the current time was 6:30 PM use AT 18:32 /interactive regedit.exe . If
that
| works look for and delete the registry key below to give your self
normal
| access. --- Steve
|
|
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\DisableRegistr
| yTools: 0x00000002
|


That's correct Steven. The Multi AV Scanning Tool can do two things...

1. Identify and remove an infector.
2. Correct the Local and Group Policy modifications made by malware.
Malware will often
limit the user's capability as an act of "self preservation". Disabling
the Registry is
such an act.

However this is incorrect...

|
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\DisableRegistr
| yTools: 0x00000002
|
|

The following examples are correct...

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"DisableRegistryTools"=-

or

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"DisableRegistryTools"=DWORD:00000000

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...s/2000/server/reskit/en-us/regentry/58869.asp

Either the value is NOT present, set to "0" or set to "1"

O = disabled which is the same as not being present.
1 = enabled

I want to also note the following is also needed

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"DisableTaskMgr"=-

or

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"DisableTaskMgr"=-DWORD:00000000

So the actual solution would be to create a REG file from the below or
delete the following
two...
"DisableTaskMgr" and "DisableRegistryTools"
from
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System


REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"DisableTaskMgr"=-
"DisableRegistryTools"=-

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Steven L Umbach" <[email protected]>

| Hi David.
|
| My suggestion was to delete the registry key and not set the value to 2. I
| grabbed that key from the output of regshot on my computer. XP SP2 can have
| a value of 2 which equates to prevent access to registry editing
| tools/disable regedit from running silently - no as shown in Group Policy
| settings. --- Steve

Thanx for that note Steve. I was not aware that >=1 for the DWORD was aceptable for WinXP
to enabling the policy.

 

[steve umbach]

I was not either until I just started seeing what happened when enabling
Group Policy on my computer for registry disable. Keep up the good
rk. --- Steve

 

[Guest]

Thanks a lot guys. I already solved the problem. I appreciate your help.

Regards,

E Viera