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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 error writing to the registry windows 8 encounter keys that are protected by the system. When you try to edit a protected error writing to the registry windows 7 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 error writing to registry key 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 error writing to registry key hkey_local_machine 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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new registry entries, you’ll encounter the following error: Registry Editor Cannot import
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. When I was trying to add a key in the Registry Editor, regedit.exe, I
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got an error message saying "Cannot create value: Error writing to the registry."I have never seen cannot create value error writing to the registry windows 10 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 cannot create key error writing to the registry windows 10 thought it might have to do with permissions so I 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 http://www.groovypost.com/howto/take-full-permissions-control-edit-protected-registry-keys/ 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 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 http://blog.tjitjing.com/index.php/2007/02/regedit-cannot-create-value-error.html 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 in the tut, but im still having the same error appearing, the registry path is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\Scsi\ It works in most other paths, just not this one 🙁 Im using Vista Ultimate Help would be appreciated! ThanksXp10r3r_3X Anonymous Jul 12, 2007 @ 19:03:00 Thanks for the bit about restarting Outlook after setting securities on Macros. I guess I'm so used to Outlook telling me when it needs to restart that it didn't occur to me there would be a case where it wouldn't tell me. Anonymous Jan 02, 2008
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