Registry Editing

[Guest]

A problem with one of my Outlook Express passwords (unresponsive to correct
passoword for one identity) pointed me to an identified problem on the MS
website directing me to edit my registry - regedt32. Though I was signed on
as a user with computer administrator ability, when I got to the next to last
step in the process - selecting "replace permission entries on all child
objects with entries shown here that apply to child objects", I received an
error saying "Access Denied" "Unable to save permission chanes on [my key
number]". I don't know how to get past this. Is there someplace I have to
go to unlock the registry?

p.s. any other ideas on how to get past this password block in outlook
express?

 

[Galen]

In shinnyfrank <[email protected]> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

A problem with one of my Outlook Express passwords (unresponsive to
correct passoword for one identity) pointed me to an identified
problem on the MS website directing me to edit my registry -
regedt32. Though I was signed on as a user with computer
administrator ability, when I got to the next to last step in the
process - selecting "replace permission entries on all child objects
with entries shown here that apply to child objects", I received an
error saying "Access Denied" "Unable to save permission chanes on [my
key number]". I don't know how to get past this. Is there someplace
I have to go to unlock the registry?

p.s. any other ideas on how to get past this password block in outlook
express?

Open your registry editor. On the left, the key name, right click and select
permissions. Give yourself full control of the string.

Just so you know editing the registry isn't the brightest thing to do though
many of us do it all the time. However, you have been warned. For a better
warning:
http://kgiii.info/windows/all/general/regedit_warn.html

Galen
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