Registry editing is blocked

[Bluesky]

I having the administrator rights can't run regedit.
Getting "Registry Editing has been disabled by your
administrator" Any Clue to solve the problem?????

 

[PsyB]

Have you used Policy to limit which users can run Regedit? If so either
edit your Group or Local Policy to allow regedit to execute. A neat
trick around this is to find regedit and create a copy of it calling it
regedit.com. Hit start, run, regedit.com and it should run without
having to play around with the group settings. Also Xteq setup can
modify this value for you (Get it here: http://www.xteq.com/) Simply
search the plugins for the term regedit using the search facility.
-=[PsyB]=-

 

[Colin Nash [MVP]]

Have you used Policy to limit which users can run Regedit? If so either
edit your Group or Local Policy to allow regedit to execute. A neat trick
around this is to find regedit and create a copy of it calling it
regedit.com. Hit start, run, regedit.com and it should run without having
to play around with the group settings. Also Xteq setup can modify this
value for you (Get it here: http://www.xteq.com/) Simply search the
plugins for the term regedit using the search facility.
-=[PsyB]=-

Many spyware/malware programs block things like regedit to make it more
difficult to detect and remove them.

 

[PsyB]

I haven't seen a Malware program that will block it against the XTeq
method of restoring it which is the same as setting Policies, that is
essentially the only place to block it other than the malware watching
for an exe or specifically regedit.exe to run. I did forget to mention,
though that the renaming of regedit.exe will only work for some malware,
but not the ones that create a policy which limits the execution of
Regedit or another Registry Editor. Use the XTeq method for quickest
results. You will find what you need to change in Program Options->Built
In Apps->RegEdit.exe
-=[PsyB]=-

Have you used Policy to limit which users can run Regedit? If so either
edit your Group or Local Policy to allow regedit to execute. A neat trick
around this is to find regedit and create a copy of it calling it
regedit.com. Hit start, run, regedit.com and it should run without having
to play around with the group settings. Also Xteq setup can modify this
value for you (Get it here: http://www.xteq.com/) Simply search the
plugins for the term regedit using the search facility.
-=[PsyB]=-

Many spyware/malware programs block things like regedit to make it more
difficult to detect and remove them.

 

[Colin Nash [MVP]]

I haven't seen a Malware program that will block it against the XTeq method
of restoring it which is the same as setting Policies, that is essentially
the only place to block it other than the malware watching for an exe or
specifically regedit.exe to run. I did forget to mention, though that the
renaming of regedit.exe will only work for some malware, but not the ones
that create a policy which limits the execution of Regedit or another
Registry Editor. Use the XTeq method for quickest results. You will find
what you need to change in Program Options->Built In Apps->RegEdit.exe
-=[PsyB]=-

Yep

 

[Guest]

Copy regedit.exe from default location (c:\windows) to another folder
(C:\temp).
Rename that copy of regedit.exe to regedit2.exe.
Double click and edit registry.

Good luck.

I haven't seen a Malware program that will block it against the XTeq method
of restoring it which is the same as setting Policies, that is essentially
the only place to block it other than the malware watching for an exe or
specifically regedit.exe to run. I did forget to mention, though that the
renaming of regedit.exe will only work for some malware, but not the ones
that create a policy which limits the execution of Regedit or another
Registry Editor. Use the XTeq method for quickest results. You will find
what you need to change in Program Options->Built In Apps->RegEdit.exe
-=[PsyB]=-

Yep