Registry editing has been disabled

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 11/19/03


Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 04:43:07 -0800


>-----Original Message-----
>Please help me, I have installed some windows xp updates,
>and I tried to access my registry to "fix" a few things,
>and a window pops up "Registry Editing Has Been Disabled
>By your administrator." And I am the administrator, I
>even try to run it as administrator, but it keeps on
>coming up with the same message.
>.
>

log into the system as administrator, then click start,
run, then type gpedit.msc and hit return. You then get the
somthing called the "group policy editor" that is a part
of the "microsft management console" - look these up on
the internet and win xp help files.

Within GPedit you'll find the option (i think its under
windows components) to disable the regedit tool. You'll
notice there are 2 sections "computer configuration"
and "user configuration" - check under windows components
in both. The computer configuration is the overall policy
for the whole system, where as the user configuration is
for the users, so anything set in the computer config will
overide anything set in the user config.

You'll need to do a bit of exploring and research on this
tool to fully undertsand how it works and what you can do
with it, and it is mainly used by sys admins on medium to
large organisations.



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