Registry key deletion denied. But I am logged in as admin

[John C. Hill]

I am trying to delete several keys in my registry in
Windows XP with SP1a installed. They are program entry's
under Hkey_Local_Machine\software key. The key's
are:K++, KaZuperNodes, KLExtensions. When I try to
delete these keys, I get, Can Not delete K++, Error while
deleting key. If I try to access the permisions for
these keys, I get security message that says "You do not
have permission to view the current permission settings
for K++, but you can make permission changes." I want to
delete these keys so that I can try to re-install the
program. Even the program installation tells me it can
not access these keys. I would like to know why I am
unable to modify and delete these keys when i am logged
in as the system administrator. I thought this account
should have priviledge to do anything to my system if I
am the administrator. This is my home computer that is
not on a network.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks,

John

 

[Guest]

Looks like those are KaZaa peer-to-peer related applications. The reason you may not be able to delete them is because the service(s) is running. See if you can get ride of them in SAFE mode

----- John C. Hill wrote: ----

I am trying to delete several keys in my registry in
Windows XP with SP1a installed. They are program entry's
under Hkey_Local_Machine\software key. The key's
are:K++, KaZuperNodes, KLExtensions. When I try to
delete these keys, I get, Can Not delete K++, Error while
deleting key. If I try to access the permisions for
these keys, I get security message that says "You do not
have permission to view the current permission settings
for K++, but you can make permission changes." I want to
delete these keys so that I can try to re-install the
program. Even the program installation tells me it can
not access these keys. I would like to know why I am
unable to modify and delete these keys when i am logged
in as the system administrator. I thought this account
should have priviledge to do anything to my system if I
am the administrator. This is my home computer that is
not on a network.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

Joh

 

[hillj]

Thanks for the help, but I had no luck. Ever under safe
mode, it makes no differance. I am logged in as the
administrator on my computer. I still recieve the same
error messages trying to delete those keys. If you have
any other suggestions, I would love to here them.

Thanks,

John

-----Original Message-----
Looks like those are KaZaa peer-to-peer related

applications. The reason you may not be able to delete
them is because the service(s) is running. See if you
can get ride of them in SAFE mode.