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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 error editing value registry windows 7 How-To The Windows registry is a hassle to edit under normal circumstances,
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but sometimes you'll encounter keys that are protected by the system. When you try to edit a protected registry
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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
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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
here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company cannot edit attributes error writing the value's new contents Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us Super User Questions Tags cannot create value error writing to the registry windows 10 Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ Super User is a question and answer site for computer enthusiasts and power users. Join them; it cannot create key error writing to the registry windows 10 only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top Why can't I change Window 7 registry key? http://www.groovypost.com/howto/take-full-permissions-control-edit-protected-registry-keys/ up vote 4 down vote favorite 1 I want to change a Windows 7 Registry key in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE->SOFTWARE->Classes->CLSID->B54F3741-5B07-11cf-A4B0-00AA004A55E8} -> InprocServer32. I ran regedit as administrator. But when I was trying to modify that key, it doesn't allow me to change and reports error as Cannot edit: error writing the value's new contents So why can't I change the registry key even in administrator mode? How to solve this problem in Windows 7? I also disabled http://superuser.com/questions/601505/why-cant-i-change-window-7-registry-key my Anti-Virus but it didn't help. windows-7 windows-registry share|improve this question asked May 30 '13 at 2:45 tonga 123115 This is related to this question that was originally on SO and was migrated to SU –Scott Chamberlain May 30 '13 at 14:07 add a comment| 2 Answers 2 active oldest votes up vote 8 down vote accepted Because by default Administrators only have read permissions for that key You can open the permissions window by right clicking on InprocServer32 and choosing Permissions.... Now to head off a XY Problem, why are you wanting to changes the value in the first place? share|improve this answer edited Apr 23 '14 at 14:02 Community♦ 1 answered May 30 '13 at 3:08 Scott Chamberlain 24.9k56484 1 Thanks. I originally posted a question related to Postgresql installation problem on SO and someone suggested me to post here. So this is related to that question. –tonga May 30 '13 at 12:48 add a comment| up vote 0 down vote That key usually belongs to the VBS script handler DLL. Symantec likes to overwrite it with their script scanning engine, and since you mentioned disabling your Anti Virus, I'm guessing you are using a Symantec AV product (but other AV packages may also do similar). Even though you disabled the AV protection the package may still be a
mistake on Windows Vista, but even so I had a hard time finding the solution on Google so I thought I'd post about it. http://blog.tjitjing.com/index.php/2007/02/regedit-cannot-create-value-error.html When I was trying to add a key in the Registry Editor, regedit.exe, I got an error message saying "Cannot create value: Error writing to the registry."I have never seen this on XP (but then again I don't edit the registry that often), but since this is Vista with UAC (User Account Control) I thought it might have to do with permissions so I error writing tried to run regedit.exe as Administrator but to no avail. Finally I figured out that I did not have the right permissions in the registry tree.The solution is simply to right click on the folder and select Permissions. You may not even have the right to change the permissions, if this is the case then first you have to take ownership - click Advanced and error editing value then the Owner tab. Funny thing about my folder is that the owner was a group called "TrustedInstaller". After I had taken ownership, I wanted to change it back to the "TrustedInstaller" group but it was nowhere to be found. Apparently you can't change it back - it is not a group but a service and part of Windows Resource Protection (WRP) as noted by Richard Civil and others in this TechNet post. Two other useful newbie things I found out - thanks to this post by Tim Sneath of Microsoft - when trying to figure out how to run a regedit.exe as Administrator in Vista was this: Run from the XP Start menu is now replaced with Start Search bar in Vista. Simply type regedit.exe (or cmd.exe etc.) in the search bar and hit Enter and it will run. To run an application with Administrator privileges using this method, instead of hitting Enter you hit Ctrl+Shift+Enter. 19 Comments (Click here to add your comment!) Anonymous Mar 26, 2007 @ 09:10:00 Thank you very much for the explanation. It was very useful. xplorer_ex May 22, 2007 @ 14:02:00 Hello there, i did everything