How do I reset the permissions on the registry?

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Jim Carlock

Without reinstalling the OS, is there a file somewhere, a tool
somewhere, to restore the original permissions on the registry?
 
Thanks Roger. It looks like it updated the following keys:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
HKEY_USERS

It did not touch the root of the following keys:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER
HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG

I imagine I might see those two as being updated upon a reboot,
as those keys are pointers into other keys.

Do you have the information on that (would you know which keys
are touched)? The log doesn't indicate what was done. It provides
quite a bit of information, but is somewhat lacking in the details.

I hate using that darn registry tool to track things. <g> There just
seems to be too much going on in the registry.

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If you have XP Pro edition then the following, restricted to the
Registry section, can reset much (not all) of the reg ACLing.
Restore XP to installation Security Defaults
for Pro see: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=313222
 
Yea, regmon and its cousins can be overwhelming, even once
one figures out filtering of what all is going on.
The HKCU is just a name for what gets built, mostly by loading
NTuser.dat from the account's profile. Since these do not exist
before the account, the setup does not touch it.
HKCC is built from parts of the HKLM durig boot and is
just a shortcut name to pieces of HKLM
The inf file is just a text file which you can read to see the
list of keys that it hits.
 
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