"Registry editing has been disabled by your administrator"

[Laurel]

I want to use "regedit" and my access is denied by the
error message above. I am the administrator and can't
find the function that will allow me to change this.
Does anyone know where I go to do this? Thanks, Laurel

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

See www.dougknox.com, Security, Disable/Enable Registry Editing Tools.

Additionally, update your antivirus software and scan your system. Free online scanners are available:

http://www.symantec.com/cgi-bin/securitycheck.cgi

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp

http://us.mcafee.com/root/mfs/default.asp?cid=9059

Also check out http://www.lavasoftusa.com for AdAware SE and http://www.safer-networking.org for SpyBot Search and Destroy.