Re: corrupt key?

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Sounds like a corrupt security descriptor. As far as I know there is no fix.

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"Barry" wrote:
| Hi,
|
| Anyone know of a way to fix this? I can't navigate to a certain key in
| regedit. I get "Error opening key". So, i assume it was a permissions
| problem. In regedt32 Ican't see the permissions at all. Fine, I'll take
| ownership. trying to take ownershp gives the error "Registry editor could
| not set owner on this key or some of its subkeys". I cant force
permissions
| down either so I'm kinda stuck with deleting this key.
|
| Annoyingly its part of some piece of software that needs to be
uninstalled,
| and the uninstaller keeps cashing as it can't delete that key.
|
| Any ideas? Is there some secret MS app for clearing unmovable rubbish out
of
| the reg?
|
| Thanks
|
|


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