Vista - Regedit - Enable or Disable

Hi Tot, and welcome to Vista Forums.

That is strange. Did you see if restarting the computer after disabling the registry will still allow a Standard user to open and read the registry?

Shawn

Hi Shawn, thanks for your quick response; Yes, I did reboot before testing. Prior to applying this fix I had the situation where calling regedit.exe under Administrator User caused UAC prompt to continue, whereas Standard User never received any prompt; this never seemed right to me - I can't now recall whether this situation always existed. Post your fix nothing has changed with respect to UAC prompts. I run with BullGuard anti-virus software (full scan every day), Windows Firewall and regularly run Ad-Aware, Spybot and GRC's ShieldsUP! 'All Service Ports' scans. Any ideas?

Tot,

That is strange. It sounds like your Standard account had it's UAC privilege level elevated somehow. The tutorial still prevents access to all users though.

Look under the Manual Way in Method Two of this tutorial below. In that same registry location, look to see if ConsentPromptBehaviorUser still has a 1 there and not a 0. Modify it to 1 if not.

User Account Control (UAC) - Elevate Privilege Level

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Hi Shawn,

confirmed ConsentPromptBehaviourAdmin=2 & ConsentPromptBehaviourUser=1. I did not need to change. I have never tried to by-pass UAC in the past as I accept that security comes at a cost.

I have tried taking ownership of regedit.exe, removing User permissions altogether & resetting ownership to 'NT SERVICE\TrustedInstaller' (not approved of I know but I thought it worth a shot) ~ regedit properties ended up looking like old DOS utility, Publisher unknown and was totally unuseable; restored and I'm now back to square one.

Thanks again for your input.

You're welcome Tot,

LOL, I gues you found a way to totally disable regedit.

The main thing is that this tutorial will still prevent access to the registry for all users. I'm still not sure how or why your Standard account was behaving that way though, but that's a completely separate issue.

Please, Please, Please

.exe are all opening with noebook need to edit reg to sort it out!

cannot change the name or regedit to .com access denied or cannot find file

dont know how to open command as administrator i dont have that option (i am admin though)
Method 2 goes as far as cd /d %userprofile%\desktop and then says invalid switch - /d

someone please help

Hello Treaclewader, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Are you opening the command prompt as descibed in steps 2 to 4? This will open a elevated command prompt.

Shawn

Shawn,

When i right click on command prompt on the start menu there is no option to run as administrator, i dont know why.
And even so, when i open it up its still opens in notepad. However the command out of the system 32 file does work but cd /d %userprofile%\desktop returns invalid switch

Rob

treaclewader you can also go into the properties and in the shortcut tab click on advanced check the run as admin.

Rob,

I would say that your computer may have been infected by some form of malware. I would recommend that you do a thorough antivirus and spyware scan to help be sure it is clean.


This link below will show you how to fix the .exe file extension. If you still do not get access to regedit, or the link's instructions will not work for you, then try a System Restore at boot (Method Two) using a restore point dated before you had this problem.

http://www.winhelponline.com/article...plication.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn