Re: Modifying the Registry

From: Will Denny (willdenny_at_mvps.org)
Date: 02/25/05 

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 23:31:18 -0000

Hi Mike

If you have Admin. rights, then you should be able to enable:

'Allow'

On your specific Account. 

-- 
Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
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"Mike Heath" <msheath@btinternet.com> wrote in message 
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Hi Will,
Thanks for your interest in my problem.
I am the sole user of my PC so I am the Administrator. I am looking at the 
following key:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Run
When I do as you say, there are four groups: Administrators (me), Creator 
Owner (don't know who this is), System and Users (me again).
Permissions are as follows:
Administrators: checks in 'Allow' box for Full Control, Read and Special 
Permissions, other boxes unchecked
Creator Owner: check in 'Allow' box for Special Permissions only, other 
boxes unchecked
System:    check in 'Allow' box for Full Control and Read only. Special 
Permissions and other boxes unchecked
Users:    same as Systems
Needless to say, I can't change the permissions like I can't change or 
delete values. Fortunately, everything else seems to be working OK on the PC 
apart from this issue with Registry access.
Any more ideas to try?
-- 
Yours, Mike
  "Will Denny" <willdenny@mvps.org> wrote in message 
news:uAqx%23M1GFHA.3484@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
  Hi
  Right click on the appropriate setting in the Registry and select
  Permissions.  What have you got enabled for your User Account?  It's got 
to
  be an Account with Administrator's rights.
  -- 
  Will Denny
  MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
  Please reply to the News Groups.
  "Mike Heath" <msheath@btinternet.com> wrote in message
  news:cvnca6$cto$1@hercules.btinternet.com...
  Tried Will's idea of rebooting in order to 'save' the Registry changes but
  it didn't work.
  This time I also tried to delete a value but it wouldn't let me. At the
  first the modification appears correctly on screen, but then if I click on
  another folder within Registry and then back again, the old value is back 
in
  place.
  Is this a completely new problem or has anyone ever met it before?
  -- 
  Yours, Mike
    "Raymond J. Johnson Jr." <RayJay@nospam.org> wrote in message
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    "Mike" <Mike@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
    news:5CA315FC-E336-4935-ADD5-F18124D158FE@microsoft.com...
    | Hi Raymond,
    |
    | OK, I use the Computer Associates product EZArmor for my firewall and
    | antivirus. I recently upgraded this which went OK except that the tray
    icons
    | refused to appear. I had a look at the autorun settings in
    | HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Run and saw that it 
was
    | trying to call up the wrong file - presumably the uninstall had not
    removed
    | the old one for some reason.
    |
    | I modified the value (having backed up the Registry!) and thought I 
was
    done
    | but, as I said, on reopening Regedit, the changes had not been saved.
    |
    | I have implemented a workaround which is to put links to the two files
    into
    | the Startup folder so I now get my tray icons but it worries me that I
    cannot
    | seem to modify the Registry if I need to.
    |
    | "Raymond J. Johnson Jr." wrote:
    |
    | >
    | > "Mike" <Mike@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
    | > news:C417A5FA-55E6-4BB6-9513-807E689929E8@microsoft.com...
    | > | I know this is not something to do lightly and I know to backup
  first
    etc
    | > but
    | > | sometimes you need to change a value. My problem is that I just
  tried
    to
    | > | modify a value but if I then close and reopen Regedit, the old 
value
    is
    | > still
    | > | unchanged. Can anyone advise me what to do to fix this? I have
  already
    | > looked
    | > | at Edit/Permissions but that seems OK. I don't want to do a System
    Restore
    | > | because I have no idea how long this situation has existed - maybe
  for
    | > many
    | > | months.
    | > | --
    | > | Mike
    Try Will's advice--reboot after editing and before reopening regedit.

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