Registry Editor disabled

[Charlie]

When I start IE, I now get a message saying "Registry
editor has been disabled by your administrator". How do I
fix this. I've run both Norton Anti-Virus and Spyhunter,
and found nothing.

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

Try AdAware from www.lavasoft.de

 

[Dan]

Go to Start->Run and type gpedit.msc and go to User
Configuration/Administrative Templates/System. There
will be a setting called "Prevent access to registry
editing tools" and it probably says "Enabled." If it
does, double-click the setting and click on "Not
Configured."

Let us know if this works for you.

Dan

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

This is probably not his answer, Dan. It sounds as if an ActiveX control
is trying to access the Registry, and isn't running with sufficient
permissions.

--
Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display
Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
http://www.dougknox.com

 

[Charlie]

Dan,

Windows can't find gpedit.msc. Any other suggestions?

Charlie

 

[Charlie]

I have used AdAware as well, but it didn't find anything.

 

[Charlie]

Windows can't find gpedit.msc, so I don't know if it
would solve the problem. Any other suggestions?

 

[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

When I start IE, I now get a message saying "Registry
editor has been disabled by your administrator". How do I
fix this. I've run both Norton Anti-Virus and Spyhunter,
and found nothing.

Hi

Put the vbscript code below in a file with .vbs as file extension name and
double click on it.


Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
sRegValue = "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\" _
& "CurrentVersion\Policies\System\DisableRegistryTools"
oShell.RegWrite sRegValue, "0", "REG_DWORD"

 

[Charlie]

That did the trick! Thanks.

-----Original Message-----


Hi

Put the vbscript code below in a file with .vbs as file extension name and
double click on it.


Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
sRegValue = "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\" _

& "CurrentVersion\Policies\System\DisableRegistryTools"

 

[Guest]

Dan, you fix worked for me, except mine did already say not configured, I changed it to disable( since the question is "prevent access to registry editing tools." I don't know why this happened except I have been trying to get the remote desktop connection to work between my office and office laptop at home
Anyway thanks for the help.