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Forums | Windows Windows Register Now or Log In to post Welcome back, My Profile Log Out Recent Activity FAQs Guidelines Question 0 Votes Locked Registry: Error opening key - can't delete it By marshall1956 · 9 years ago https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/892192 I have a key in the registry I can't open or delete. I get the error message "Error opening key - Cannot open keyname: Error while opening key."I have read as many posts as I can find but no help. Everyone talks about being sure you have adminstrator rights, assigning right to the key, safe mode. No one seems to have any ideas after that. I've tried booting into safemode, signing on my account with administrative privileges or the http://www.techrepublic.com/forums/discussions/registry-error-opening-key-cant-delete-it/ default adminstrator acoount. I've tried to assign the key Full Control and check box to replace all child objects for Administrator and All Accounts, and it works for all but the problem key, get error message: "Registry editor could not set security in the key currently selected, or some of its subkeys."This all started when I tried to update Windows Media Player to version 11 so I can download and play files from my TIVO. I have version 10 and they say I have to upgrade to version 11 to play the files. In running the upgrade it always fails at the very end. The log file gives the error message as access denied on the key HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Mediaplayer\Settings\MP3encoding\lowrate. One suggestion given to me to fix it was to delete the key in question and reinstall. Well I can't access HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Mediaplayer\Settings so there are no subkeys. I tried to open all the subkeys under HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Mediaplayer and I can open everyone except ...\Settings and ...\Player\CDData. I can open ...\Player\Extensions.How do I fix or delete or rename the key in question? I'm in safe mode, I'm in the administrator account, I've tried to change the permissions for the parent key and give to the child key, so please don't suggest doing that again. I can't rename it or insert another key with the same name.When Mediaplayer 11 fails it resets to Mediaplayer 10 which still works, but I'm fr
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Tools & Services We Recommend Subscribe Search Return to Content How To Take Full Permissions Control To Edit Protected Registry Keys Austin Krause | February 2, 2011 in How-To The Windows registry is a hassle to edit under normal circumstances, but sometimes you'll encounter keys that are protected by the system. When you try to edit a protected registry key you'll run into a few different errors, but they generally tell you that you lack permissions for making changes. But, since it is just a permissions issue we can get around this by granting your user account in Windows the correct permissions! Read on to learn how… How do I know the registry key is protected? When trying to create a new entry within a protected Key you’ll see the following error: Error Creating Key Cannot create key: You do not have the requisite permissions to create a new key under