Regedit: Registry editing has been disabled by your administrator

[indiauday]

Hello friends,
I am new user to this community.

My problem is when I try to open registry editor by start> run > regedit, it displays this message.
"Registry editing has been disabled by your administrator"

I logon with administrator administrator account, then why it gives this message.

Thank you for reading my post.

[bartonc]

Hello friends,
I am new user to this community.

My problem is when I try to open registry editor by start> run > regedit, it displays this message.
"Registry editing has been disabled by your administrator"

I logon with administrator administrator account, then why it gives this message.

Thank you for reading my post.

Is your OS XP Pro, or some other (Home) version?

[bartonc]

Is your OS XP Pro, or some other (Home) version?

If it's XP Pro, you'll want to check your group policy settings.
To run the Group Policy Editor, see How To Use the Group Policy Editor to Manage Local Computer Policy in Windows XP.
In that editor, go to Local Computer Policy->User Configuration->Administrati ve Templates->System. In there, check the item called "Prevent access to registry editing tools" and make sure that it is not enabled.

Hope that helps.

[indiauday]

I am using windows XP professional with service pack 2.

[indiauday]

Thank you Bartonc,

my problem is solved. You seem to have great knowledge of Windows
Thank you very much , bye n take care

[bartonc]

Thank you Bartonc,

my problem is solved. You seem to have great knowledge of Windows
Thank you very much , bye n take care

Glad to be of assistance. I actually learned something on this one.

[udhayakarthick]

hi everybody i see some code(which i given below) in a site and save it as regtools.vbs then i double click that icon. this disable my regedit. Now i am unable to enable it again.
please give me solution..
it is very urgent i am unable to install new softwares in my system.



'

Enable/Disable Registry Editing tools
'© Doug Knox - rev 12/06/99
Option Explicit
'Declare variables
Dim WSHShell, n, MyBox, p, t, mustboot, errnum, vers
Dim enab, disab, jobfunc, itemtype
Set WSHShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
p = "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\"
p = p & "DisableRegistryTools"
itemtype = "REG_DWORD"
mustboot = "Log off and back on, or restart your pc to" & vbCR & "effect the changes"
enab = "ENABLED"
disab = "DISABLED"
jobfunc = "Registry Editing Tools are now "
'This section tries to read the registry key value. If not present an
'error is generated.  Normal error return should be 0 if value is
'present
t = "Confirmation"
Err.Clear
On Error Resume Next
n = WSHShell.RegRead (p)
On Error Goto 0
errnum = Err.Number
if errnum <> 0 then
'Create the registry key value for DisableRegistryTools with value 0
 WSHShell.RegWrite p, 0, itemtype
End If
 

[bartonc]

If you have XP Pro, I can guide you in doing this from the Group Policies Editor.

[bartonc]

If you have XP Pro, I can guide you in doing this from the Group Policies Editor.

Here is a link to that discussion.

[udhayakarthick]

thank u for ur help.
thanks a lot. i recover from that problem

regards
udhaya