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Cannot write to the registry at all

  1. #1



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    Join Date : Oct 2009
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    Vista Home Premium 64bit
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    Cannot write to the registry at all

    Any help would be appreciated as I am totally stuck!

    Only have one account on Vista Home Premium, which I set up when first loading up the PC - this account is the admin account.

    I recently trialled some Adobe software, the software ran out and I attempted to uninstall. An error message came up saying I didn't have sufficient priveledges to write to the key/registry and I couldn't properly uninstall. I followed some instructions and tried to make the key available to access using permissions, this seemed to work. It still wasn't working so I searched the net and came across Revo Uninstaller, and managed to remove all instances of the software.

    I then attempted to install some different software and this failed with a similar message - "do not have permission to access the key"...

    Today I tried to load up iTunes and now I'm getting the same message when double-clicking the logo on desktop. So I attempted to uninstall iTunes, then re-install. I can't uninstall as I get a key error again, and when I try to install the same error occurs.

    Everything points to me not being able to have full permissions to access the registry, but I can't find out exactly how to:



    1. Uninstall correctly
    2. Reinstall correctly

    If anyone can help I would appreciate it - otherwise, I'm going to wait until Windows 7 comes out, wipe my HD and do a fresh install

    Thanks,
    Tony

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    Join Date : Apr 2008
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    Vista Bussiness x64 PL
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    poland

     

    Re: Cannot write to the registry at all

    Check how it is in safe mode -if the same open regedit go to

    HKEY_LOCALE_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall

    and check permissions to this key.Administrators group & System account should have full control,Users group -read

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Cannot write to the registry at all

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