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.

[nelabotlasreekanth]

hi all,
i am sreekanth. i have copied some data from one hardisk to another hard and after that my taskmanager ,regedit,cmd etc all are been disabled . when ever i enable them and when i again log into my system after some time the same problem is coming again.. please help me

[ayssa]

i have the same problem as the user post a comment here....i do lots of commands like what u said and i did also the download the regtools.vbs and the unhookexec..... .and this: REG add HKCU\Software\M icrosoft\Window s\CurrentVersio n\Pol icies\System /v DisableRegistry Tools /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f.............. .....but still when i restart the computer it always prompt the same problem.....ple ase give me the possible solution that can do enabled the registry editing in my computer even i shut it down and restart it again....

[ayssa]

i also did reformat my pc and still it have the same problem...then i try to wipe my hard disk out and install again the pc in the second time around but still i have the same problem.....ple ase have mercy to have solution in this mesh.......than ks in advance

[balajicm]

Try this command prompt

reg delete HKCU\Software\M icrosoft\Window s\CurrentVersio n\Policies\Syst em

Then restart your system

Regards,
Balaji C.M

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.

[yerepramo]

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

I have the same problem,
first my task manager is disabled
i get an error message "Task Manager is disabled by your administrator"
so i search for it in Windows Help, said i should run regedit
but when i did, i get the same error message
"Registry Editing is disabled by your Administrator"
i am using WINDOWS XP HOME.

[Chrisjc]

Iv kind of scanned through this thread and got the jist of everything… I think I might have solution in my head however it is at a medium level of knowledge for a PC user, however I will make a step by step sheet to explain how it can be done just by printing this out.

Now Iv read a few times that this issue can not be reformatted however I believe we can by pass this and format the “HD” (Hard Drive). NOTE: any thing on your “HD” will be lost so only follow through with this concept if your okay with that.

You will need the following.

1. Time! Could take anywhere from 2 to 5 hours.
2. Your computer
3. The HD that is infected
4. Another HD at least 5 gigs
5. Your Operating system CD’ that came with your PC. (Unless a custom PC you will need the OS CD of your choice/have.)

Step 1. Print this guild out.

Step 2. Power down you PC and open up your computer case.

Step 3. Un-plug your Operating System hard drive. (Assuming your computer only has one that will be the one you unplug. If you have more then one it is normally the hard drive on top or has the longer part of the IDE from the mother board to the HD plugged in first, with the short end going to the 2nd hard drive.) If you have SATA your computer brand will have HD1 plugged into SATA port 1 “See motherboard for which port”

Step 4. Hook up the other Hard drive and leave your OLD Hard drive un-plugged NOTE: you don’t have to remove the HD from its rack just un-plug it. Place the other HD in a rack and plug it in.

Step 5. If the Hard you just plugged in has an Operating System on it already that’s good. If not you will need to format this Hard Drive with your CD’s. (XP Home, XP Pro, XP Media Center Which ever is fine for this)

Step 6. Assuming you had no issues with your install of the OS on the 2nd Hard drive you placed in you should now be looking at windows screen (desktop) If you are power down the PC.

Step 7. Re-plug in your old Hard drive with the corrupted OS and power on your system the computer will boot, enter the BIO’s at this time by pressing the (Delete key) or on some brand computers is (F2 key) Once inside your BIO’s locate your Boot Sequence and select the Good OS in some cases the boot sequence would look like this: Note: some computers have boot hard drives sequence or just Boot sequence in either case you just need to be able to put the good Hard drive as first booted and if possible disable the 2nd HD from booting.

160gig HDD
40gig HDD

Now assuming the corrupted OS is lets say the 160gig you will place that as 2nd in the list or 3rd wherever you want just not the first bootable device. Or just disable it if you can.
And assuming lets say the 40gig is the new OS you installed you will make that the 1st bootable device.

Once you have switched the boot sequence save and exit your BIO’s.

If for whatever reason your BIO’s will not allow you to change the boot sequence or HDD sequence go ahead and allow the PC to boot up it should stop at a black screen and ask you to select a OS. Now there could be a lot of reasons why the 1st one could be the good OS or the 2nd one so I am just going to tell you to pick one… And see which OS it loads up. If you get the bad OS just hold down your power button for 7secs and the computer will turn off, power back on your computer and select the OS you didn’t pick the first time.

Step 8. Now assuming you have both hard drives plugged in and work and you are now looking at the desktop screen lets fix that corrupted HD! Let’s click
(Start > “Right click My Computer” > Mange) You should now have a window opened named (Computer Management) Inside this window to the left we have some options find the option “Disk Management” Click on that.

It will now display in the same window all the CD/ROMs / Hard drives connected to the computer. Once again let’s say the corrupted OS was the 160 gig look for that HD in the list and “Right Click it” There will be an option in there that says FORMAT Change the Label to “whatever you wish” and be sure you have “NTFS” selected, unit size leave at “default” and DO NOT click on quick format!

Click on “ok” and let it go Now for reasons to much to explain I want you to repeat the same step. This is to make sure we are getting rid of that corrupted OS.

Step 9. Now assuming everything went just fine you old Harddrive should have a FRESH format on it with the file system of NTFS. If this is the case power down your PC remove the Hard drive you put in close up your case and Power back on with the windows CD or whatever OS you wish to put on there in the CD/ROM and let it start the set-up.

Step 10. Once at the screen where you select the Hard drive to install the OS too delete the NTFS format we made on the old hard drive and create a new one! The setup will ask you to format the HD DO NOT SELECT QUICK NTFS! Select NTFS! This may take some time depending on your computer and how large the HD is but this will be sure for the 3rd time to clean everything off and starting new. After that is finished complete the install and that’s it!

I hope this will help solve this issue as I am not 100% sure it will help but doing everything I explained here is an advanced way to clear off a HARDDRIVE and I have used this method before to remove corrupted OS’s from a HD that just wouldn’t get rid of the issue even have just a normal install and format…

I am not 100% sure why it works this way but bill gates seem to have made the “Disk Manager” in windows a godly form of deleting data on a HD.

The End.

By Chris.

[lotus18]

I have the same problem,
first my task manager is disabled
i get an error message "Task Manager is disabled by your administrator"
so i search for it in Windows Help, said i should run regedit
but when i did, i get the same error message
"Registry Editing is disabled by your Administrator"
i am using WINDOWS XP HOME.

Your OS might infected by a computer virus. Some sort of computer viruses nowadays, do not allow the user to run the regedit.

[egefl1]

I have XP pro. my editor vertion is 5.1
and I have the same issue of administrative rights have been disabled
i ran Webroot spysweeper and it said I had
1- PWS-banker.gen.bb
2- Trojan-dropper.gen
3- Trojan-dropper.gen.x


any suggestions?

[chiravila]

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.

Hi,

Have you solved the above said problem?
Please reply.

zephyrit@gmail. com

[arlonadkinson]

THANKS TO DOUG KNOX!!!!!! This gives back access to REGEDIT!
http://www.dougknox.co m/security/scripts_desc/regtools.htm
regtools.vbs - Disable/Enable Registry Editing tools in Windows
© Doug Knox - rev 01/10/2000 This code may be freely distributed/modified.
Usage: Download regtools.vbs Save the file to the folder of your choice. Double click the VBS file. The VB Script file will check for the appropriate value and if not found will create it. If the value was found, it will be toggled to its opposite state and you will be informed that you need to log off/back on or restart your computer. One note. This change is made in HKCU\Software\M icrosoft\Window s\CurrentVersio n\Policies\Syst em. Disabling the tools takes effect immediately. Enabling requires a restart. This script can be viewed in Notepad or any text editor, as to the specific Registry key and value that are updated. Your antivirus software may report this script as potentially malicious, or a possible virus. This is because the script writes to the System Registry.

Then go to regedit and edit the following
HKEY_CURRENT_US ER
SOFTWARE
MICROSOFT
WINDOWS
CURRENT VERSION
POLICIES
EXPLORER

ONCE YOU GET HERE START AT THE BOTTOM OF THE LIST AND DELETE THE ENTRIES----YOU CAN DELETE THEM ALL BUT I LEFT THE TOP ONE WHICH IN MY CASE WAS “ AB DEFAULT”

Then, check the registry to see if "NoDispCpl" had been added.
"Deny Access to the Display Settings"
http://www.winguides.c om/registry/display.php/167/

User Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_US ER\Software\Mic rosoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Policies
\System]
System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACH INE\Software\Mi crosoft\Windows
\CurrentVersion \Policies\Syste m]
Value Name: NoDispCPL
Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)
Value Data: (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
In regedit use the edit option to FIND any of the following entries in the registry
DisableRegistry Tools delete any entries found
DisableTaskMgr delete any entries found
NoDispCpl delete any entries found
Virus Alert!
Also if the worm put VIRUS ALERT! By the time go control panel---regional and
Language----click customize---------and delete VIRUS ALERT!