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I have a pc at home with 4 users. we are all classified as sys admin. I
entered regedit in the run program and got a message " regedit was disabled
by sys admin"

I know nothing about this but how do I reactivate it

thanks, Ken

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Try Lines 173 and 213 left here:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

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Peter.
Toronto, Canada.
Windows XP Home SP2.
P4 dual HT @ 3.0ghz, 160gb HD, 1.0gb DDR.
"ken" <schw9883@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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>I have a pc at home with 4 users. we are all classified as sys admin. I
>entered regedit in the run program and got a message " regedit was disabled
>by sys admin"
>
> I know nothing about this but how do I reactivate it
>
> thanks, Ken
>

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Hi Ken,

This should re-enable regedit, but the cause may be a virus infection.
So I would suggest doing a virus with up to date virus software.

Line 275: Lift Restrictions - Task Manager, Regedit and CMD
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Virus and Spyware removal and prevention.
http://home.earthlink.net/~mvp_bert/html/spyware.html

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Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://dts-l.org/


ken wrote:
> I have a pc at home with 4 users. we are all classified
> as sys admin. I entered regedit in the run program and
> got a message " regedit was disabled by sys admin"
>
> I know nothing about this but how do I reactivate it
>
> thanks, Ken

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