re Registry is unalterable, says see Admin, I AM ADMIN

From: taurarian (taurarian_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/11/03


Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 22:23:04 -0700


http://www.dougknox.com/security/scripts_desc/regtools.htm

>-----Original Message-----
>I've tried to due some pretty standard things with WinXP
>Home and been given a message saying, more or
>less, "Changing the registry has been disabled by your
>system administrator". I am the system administrator (at
>least I thought so).
>
>I only have one login, and the guest login is off. I
>frequently get a message like this one
>
>"This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in
>effect on this computer. Please contact your system
>administrator"
>
>I also get messages saying "Registry Editing Has Been
>Disabled On This Computer. Contact Your System
>Administrator" when I try to run Regedit.
>
>I cannot run regedit (and anything I do that tries to
>alter the registry) will not happen. I created a "test"
>account for my system and none of these issues were
>present there. I also ran Norton anti-virus and found no
>viruses. Ditto for Spyware, or other hostile programs.
>
>I can log on as administrator with another account and I
>can open regedit there.
>
>By the way - and I don't know if this means anything -
>when I hit ctrl-alt-del and check the Users tab the user
>name listed is "Owner". This is not the case when I login
>under the test account.
>
>I logged on under my "test" account and just poked around
>with the first HKEY entry.
>
>There are four entries under permissions for
>HKey_Classes_Root
>
>Administrators (DEVILBOX\Administrators)
>CREATOR OWNER
>SYSTEM
>Users (DEVILBOX\Users)
>
>Everything is set to Allow for Full Control and Read
except
>CREATOR OWNER which will not let me switch from Special
>Permissions. If I attempt to assign it Allow and Full
>Control it just switches the settings back after a couple
>of seconds. Under Advanced Options the Apply to column
>shows CREATOR OWNER as Subkeys Only. It will not switch
>either. Both these settings switch themselves back after
a
>couple of seconds.
>
>I have looked far and wide for help on this to no avail.
>Any assistance in this matter would be greatly
appreciated.
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