RE: Setting permissions in Regedit

From: lm (lm_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/12/05


Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 03:03:02 -0700

I think you don't need to play with "regedit". If you have firewall and
antivirus running, disable them temporarely and right after you downloaded
and istalled what ever you downloaded enable the firewall and anti virus
back.

"DennistheHun" wrote:

> I had a problem downloading some hardware updates from Windows Update and
> received the 80070005 error message. MS gives instructions on how to fix
> this using Regedit and although I followed the instructions fully, nothing
> has changed. I note that it is necessary for all users to have full access
> in order for the fix to work (I am the only user of this machine) but my own
> user name setting gives me Read access and when I try to change this a new
> user line is entered with the old one with Read access only is still there.
> The result is that I still do not have the right to change files on my own
> machine (I can't even delete the needed System files in Windows Explorer).
> Can anyone suggest a fix for this problem?
>
> --
> ___________________________________
> dennisthehun2@hotmail.com
>
>
>



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