Registry editor permissions

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Hi,
I'm hoping someone can confirm my suspicions for me. I'm trying to help
someone with Error 1607 & 1606 InstallShield problems & having worked through
most of the info on the InstallShield website we've gotten to checking the
registry. However when she opens regedit she can only see HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
& can't even see My Computer.
This suggests to me that she doesn't have full Administrative rights on the
machine, is this correct or could it be caused by something else?

Thanks,
C
 
ColetteM said:
Hi,
I'm hoping someone can confirm my suspicions for me. I'm trying to help
someone with Error 1607 & 1606 InstallShield problems & having worked through
most of the info on the InstallShield website we've gotten to checking the
registry. However when she opens regedit she can only see HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
& can't even see My Computer.
This suggests to me that she doesn't have full Administrative rights on the
machine, is this correct or could it be caused by something else?

Thanks,
C
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Your colleague should do this to determine the group membership of
her account:

- Start a Command Prompt
- Type either of these commands:
net user Colette
net localgroup administrators

While insufficient privileges can prevent you from opening a
registry key, they do not hide such keys (or hives) from you.
I have only experienced hidden hives when accessing the
registry of a remote PC.
 
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