Regedit Disabled

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See:

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/tweakuirest.htm


"DavidS" <DavidS@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8DB55EB3-4AAA-491C-9D8E-409B79A50945@microsoft.com...
| I'm an administrator of Windows network with respective admin privilidges.
I
| log in as the Administrator account, and I can run regedit on my laptop -
| setup with Windows XP professional. When I log in as myself - even though
I
| am part of the Administrators group, I am not allowed to run regedit from
my
| laptop. I get the message "Registry editing has been disabled by your
| administrator."
| How do I enable this feature for my account and/or what group policy do I
| change for my account (please advise as towards how I do this).
|
| Tnks Always.

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin (More info?)

Not sure if this helps because I don't have WinXP Pro

Start/Run/gpedit.msc. User Configuration/Administrative Templates/Windows
Components/Windows Update. In the right pane, double click, Remove access to all
Windows Update Features and set it to disabled.

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts [...] policy.htm
Removes Policy Setting that disables Windows Update – Windows XP
If you receive the following error:
Access Denied
Network policy settings prevent you from using Windows Update to download and install
updates on your computer.
If you believe you have received this message in error, please check with your system
administrator.




DavidS wrote:
> This allows me to now edit the group policy - and I thank you kindly.
> But I'm still not able to run the regedit program for my login ID,
> DSample (example login id). I did add the key "DisableRegistryTools
> REG_DWORD 0x00000000 (0)" to the following folder from the
> Administrator account - using regedit -
> \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System.
> Again, can't run regedit from my login account (that has Admin group
> settings).
>
> Any other suggestions/articles. Tnks always.
>
> "Tom Pepper Willett" wrote:
>
>> See:
>>
>> http://windowsxp.mvps.org/tweakuirest.htm
>>
>>
>> "DavidS" <DavidS@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:8DB55EB3-4AAA-491C-9D8E-409B79A50945@microsoft.com...
>>> I'm an administrator of Windows network with respective admin
>>> privilidges. I log in as the Administrator account, and I can run
>>> regedit on my laptop - setup with Windows XP professional. When I
>>> log in as myself - even though I am part of the Administrators
>>> group, I am not allowed to run regedit from my laptop. I get the
>>> message "Registry editing has been disabled by your administrator."
>>> How do I enable this feature for my account and/or what group
>>> policy do I change for my account (please advise as towards how I
>>> do this).
>>>
>>> Tnks Always.

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin (More info?)

I researched another download from www.dougknow.com/xp/ - Security |
Disable/Enable Registry Editing Tools in Windows script, regtools.vbs.

I downloaded this, ran script, rebooted laptop - and I can now access the
registry using regedit tool.

Only issue that now remains is Windows Update : "Network policy settings
prevent you from using Windows Update to download and install updates on your
computer [Error number : 0x8DDD0003]". Any other suggestions?

"TaurArian" wrote:

> Not sure if this helps because I don't have WinXP Pro
>
> Start/Run/gpedit.msc. User Configuration/Administrative Templates/Windows
> Components/Windows Update. In the right pane, double click, Remove access to all
> Windows Update Features and set it to disabled.
>
> http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts [...] policy.htm
> Removes Policy Setting that disables Windows Update – Windows XP
> If you receive the following error:
> Access Denied
> Network policy settings prevent you from using Windows Update to download and install
> updates on your computer.
> If you believe you have received this message in error, please check with your system
> administrator.
>
>
>
>
> DavidS wrote:
> > This allows me to now edit the group policy - and I thank you kindly.
> > But I'm still not able to run the regedit program for my login ID,
> > DSample (example login id). I did add the key "DisableRegistryTools
> > REG_DWORD 0x00000000 (0)" to the following folder from the
> > Administrator account - using regedit -
> > \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System.
> > Again, can't run regedit from my login account (that has Admin group
> > settings).
> >
> > Any other suggestions/articles. Tnks always.
> >
> > "Tom Pepper Willett" wrote:
> >
> >> See:
> >>
> >> http://windowsxp.mvps.org/tweakuirest.htm
> >>
> >>
> >> "DavidS" <DavidS@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:8DB55EB3-4AAA-491C-9D8E-409B79A50945@microsoft.com...
> >>> I'm an administrator of Windows network with respective admin
> >>> privilidges. I log in as the Administrator account, and I can run
> >>> regedit on my laptop - setup with Windows XP professional. When I
> >>> log in as myself - even though I am part of the Administrators
> >>> group, I am not allowed to run regedit from my laptop. I get the
> >>> message "Registry editing has been disabled by your administrator."
> >>> How do I enable this feature for my account and/or what group
> >>> policy do I change for my account (please advise as towards how I
> >>> do this).
> >>>
> >>> Tnks Always.
>
>

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin (More info?)

I've changed DisableWindowsUpdateAccess from 1 to 0 - and issue resolved.

Tnks a million.

p.s. My initial problem was caused I think by not being able to run
regedit. I was attempting to do all these things after logging in as
Administrator account - to no avail. Once I got regedit to work under MY
user login name, then I ran the regedit tool and changed appropriate key
value from 1 to 0 and it works fine. Also, I had to set the security
permissions on the key for my id - so all is well.

Again - thanks all for your help.

"Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" wrote:

> DavidS wrote:
>
> > I researched another download from www.dougknow.com/xp/ - Security |
> > Disable/Enable Registry Editing Tools in Windows script, regtools.vbs.
> >
> > I downloaded this, ran script, rebooted laptop - and I can now access the
> > registry using regedit tool.
> >
> > Only issue that now remains is Windows Update : "Network policy settings
> > prevent you from using Windows Update to download and install updates on your
> > computer [Error number : 0x8DDD0003]". Any other suggestions?
> Hi,
>
> Try this:
>
> Start/Run ==> regedit.exe
>
> Under the registry key
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
> \Policies\Explorer
>
> delete the value "NoWindowsUpdate" if it exist.
>
>
> Under the registry key
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
> \Policies\Windows Update
>
> delete the value "DisableWindowsUpdateAccess" if it exist.
>
>
> Under the registry key
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
> \Group Policy Objects\LocalUser\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
> CurrentVersion\Policies\Windows Update
>
> delete the value "DisableWindowsUpdateAccess" if it exist.
>
>
> If the above values was not found:
>
> Do a registry search (in regedit.exe, be sure to have "My Computer"
> selected when starting each search)) for registry values with name
>
> NoWindowsUpdate
>
> and
> DisableWindowsUpdateAccess
>
> and delete if found.
>
>
> --
> torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
> Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
> the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/s [...] fault.mspx
>