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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 unable to save permission changes on regedit hassle to edit under normal circumstances, but sometimes you'll encounter keys that are protected windows 10 registry permissions by the system. When you try to edit a protected registry key you'll run into a few different errors, but error writing the value's new contents windows 7 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
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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
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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 10 registry key? up vote 4 down vote favorite I want to http://www.groovypost.com/howto/take-full-permissions-control-edit-protected-registry-keys/ change a Windows 7 Registry key in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced - Hidden 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 10? windows windows-10 windows-registry share|improve this question asked Oct 15 '15 at 3:05 Miguel Hernandez 24112 What http://superuser.com/questions/986888/why-cant-i-change-window-10-registry-key permissions do you have in the registry key ? Value that you are trying to add, is it a REG_DWORD ? –pun Oct 15 '15 at 3:10 add a comment| 2 Answers 2 active oldest votes up vote 7 down vote Interesting. I'm on Windows 10 Pro x64 and I can edit the value. Right click on Advanced and choose "Permissions". Click your user name and make sure you have full permissions: If you don't, try allowing yourself full control (if the boxes are available). If they're greyed out like in my screenshot, but you don't have full access, you can try to take ownership of the object by clicking Advanced Then next to Owner click Change: Type your username into the box and then press Check Names. Press Okay, then before you press Okay again make sure the following is selected: share|improve this answer answered Oct 15 '15 at 3:43 Insane 1,71221236 Thanks for answering, but I still have this problem, I did everything but I can't. –Miguel Hernandez Oct 15 '15 at 4:12 What do you mean did everything? Did you have full control? If not could you give yourself full control? Did you add yourself as owner? Do you get any different error message after setting yourself as an owner? –Insane Oct 15 '15 at 4:19 I did everything you told me, I added myself as owner an
and assign full permission on a particular registry key. Although we provide detailed steps to do this task in all our tutorials, some people find it difficult to take ownership of http://www.askvg.com/guide-how-to-take-ownership-permission-of-a-registry-key-in-windows/ registry keys. Recently when we received an email from one of our reader asking how to assign a user full permission on a registry key in Windows, we decided to create a dedicated article about http://ccm.net/faq/45190-how-to-take-ownership-of-a-registry-key-in-windows-10 it. So today in this article, we'll post a step-by-step guide with screenshots which will teach you how to take ownership and grant full permission and control on a registry key. It'll become useful if error writing you are trying to delete a key in Registry and getting an error such as "Cannot delete key: Error while deleting key". So without wasting time, lets start the tutorial: UPDATE: Also check out new methods to take ownership and grant full permissions on Registry keys from command-line: [Windows Tip] Take Ownership (Permission) of Registry Keys from Command Line 1. Type regedit in RUN or start menu searchbox and press Enter. unable to save It'll open Registry Editor. 2. Now go to the desired registry key, right-click on it and select "Permissions..." option. 3. It'll open a new dialog box. Click on "Advanced" button. For Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7: Go to "Owner" tab, select your username and click on Apply button. If you also want to take ownership of the sub-key, enable the option "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects". PS: If you want to get permission on all sub-keys, enable following 2 options in "Permissions" tab: Include inheritable permissions from this object's parent Replace all child object permissions with inheritable permissions from this object If you are not a Windows 8 or later OS user, jump to Step 4. For Windows 8/8.1, Windows 10 and later: Click on "Change" button near "TrustedInstaller" as shown in following image: It'll open new dialog box. Now type your username and click on "Check Names" button. It'll automatically convert the username to correct format. Now click on OK button. 4. Now select your username in first dialog box and check the "Allow" checkbox given for "Full Control" option. 5. That's it. Click on Apply and OK buttons and you'll now have full permission on the registry key. Also check: [Guide] How to Take Ownersh
Subscribe to our newsletter Search Home Forum Ask a question Latest questions Windows Mac Linux Internet Video Games Software Hardware Mobile Network Virus Café How To Download Ask a question Windows Software Mac Software Linux Software Android Apps BlackBerry Apps iPhone Apps Windows Phone Apps News Encyclopedia Home How To Operating Systems Windows How To Take Ownership of a Registry Key in Windows 10 Ask a question October 2016 Sometimes when you try to edit a key in the Registry editor, the operation is interrupted by the Cannot create value: Error writing to the registry or Cannot edit value_name: Error writing the value’s new contents error messages. Such errors occur when the user account you are currently signed in to Windows 10 lacks the necessary privileges to edit the registry keys. They can be remedied by launching the Registry Editor as an Administrator and changing the default access permissions of the registry keys. How To Take Full Control of a Registry Key How To Open the Registry Editor as an Administrator How To Change the Access Permissions of a Registry Key How To Take Full Control of a Registry Key How To Open the Registry Editor as an Administrator Open the Run command, type regedit and press Ctrl+ Shift + Enter to open the Registry Editor as an Administrator. How To Change the Access Permissions of a Registry Key If the problem still persists even after you've switched to administrator mode, the only solution is to take ownership of the registry key. Open the Registry Editor and navigate to the desired key. Right-click on the key and select Permissions from the contextual menu displayed: Click on the Advanced button: Click on the Change button displayed next to Owner to open Select User or Group menu. Type the email address (Microsoft Account) associated with your current user account in the Enter the object name to select field and then click on Check Names: Once the account has be validated, click on OK to change owner and then click on OK again to head back to the Permissions screen. Select the new owner (your current account) from the list and then tick the Allow checkboxes displayed next to Full Control and Read permissions: Click on OK to close the Permissions window and return to the