"Ted Gervais" said in news:
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I need to run the regedit and have found that it is turned off.
Something about the administrator has that function turned off? I
must have done that once upon a time but have no idea how to turn it
back on?
How is that done??
You will somehow have to edit the registry to add:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies
DisableRegistryTools
This is a REG_DWORD where Off = 0 or value is removed, and On = 1. Found
this mentioned at:
Guide To Windows NT 4.0 Profiles and Policies (Part 5 of 6)
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=185590
and at:
http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/190/
Since you have regedit disabled under Windows XP then maybe this registry
data value is still valid. However, the article at
http://www.pcmech.com/show/os/150/3 seems to indicate the
DisableRegistryTools data value goes under the ...\Policies\System subkey
(it looks like the example .reg file is missing the "\" between Policies and
System).
If you disable the Registry Editor (by enabling the above data value), you
will NOT be able to modify ANY Registry settings anymore. One way to enable
registry tools would be to run a .reg file that disables this registry data
value. The following might work in a .reg file:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies]
"DisableRegistryTools"=dword:00000000
Don't know why but the "Windows ..." top line (and maybe the blank second
line) were needed. Without them, I'd get a bitch message saying, "Specified
file is not a script. You can import only binary registry files." Well,
exported and imported .reg files are text files and not binary files, so my
guess is that it wants the text line saying it is a Windows Registry Editor
file.
Name the .reg file whatever you want, like EnableRegistryTools.reg, then
double-click on it to load the values within into the registry. Of course,
this assumes that importing a .reg file by double-clicking on it is not also
disabled when you disable the registry tools.
It is also possible that regedit.exe is in a list of programs that are not
allowed to run. Try looking at the following:
- Run gpedit.msc (group policy editor).
- Navigate to the User Configuration node in the tree. Since settings here
are per user, you would have to repeat this procedure by logging on under
each local account defined on your computer. I haven't been a domain admin
so I don't know what they would do for this setting.
- Navigate to the Administrative Templates -> System node.
- Look at the properties for the "Don't run specified Windows applications"
option.
Aha! Look and you'll see another option named "Prevent access to registry
editing tools." I bet that does the same thing as the registry modification
above. You can check if disabling this option (to allow access). I'm not
going to disable regedit on my computer and then find that I cannot enable
it later, so good luck to see if it works on yours. I figured there would
be a policy regarding use of regedit but I couldn't find it before.
