Registry keys with weird permission settings

[Dave Nuttall]

I have a whole hierarchy of registry keys I need to delete.

When I click on the top-level key I get: Access is Denied.

Right click then gives the interesting message: You do not have permission
to view the current permission settings for xxx, but you can make permission
changes.

I then go into Advanced / Owner, take ownership, and give myself full
control.

When I try to delete the key, I get the message: Error while deleting key.
Some child keys then show up, all with the same write-only permission
setting. These child keys extend for some depth and width.

If I try to replace all existing inheritable permissions from the top-level
key on the children, I get: Registry Editor could not set security in the
key currently selected, or some of its subkeys.

I don't have the patience to plod all the way through the hierarchy, and I'm
too far into RC2 to want to go back and re-install.

Anyone got any ideas on how to get rid of these guys?

 

[Jane C]

Start, type regedit in the search box, right click on regedit as it appears
in search results in the top box, select run as administrator.

 

[Dave Nuttall]

Start, type regedit in the search box, right click on regedit as it

appears in search results in the top box, select run as administrator.

Apologies, forgot to mention I was running regedit as administrator.

 

[Dave Nuttall]

Hey Jane,

This is the post I was having trouble with. This time (the fourth attempt),
it did show up in Windows Mail - but I can't see it on the web interface.
Weird, huh?

 

[Jane C]

I always knew there were gremlins lurking in that web interface ;-)