Vista - Registry Editing / Permission Denied even "run as administrator"

I'm having a problem updating the drivers to my Saitek X52. Apparently old
drivers from XP do not properly uninstall and I have to manually clean out
the registry because the new drivers tell me to plug in the jostick to
install the drivers but when I do nothing happens. I notice a generic driver
pop in the under device manager when I plug in the joystick, so I'm trying to
clean out the registry of my SAITEK entries.

Unfortunately on several I am getting "permission denied" under safe mode,
under run as administrator, can't change the owner because I still get
'permission denied.'

Is there a different way to clean out my USB ids or what am I supposed to
do? I see that the SYSTEM is the only user allowed full rights to the key -
how do I log in as SYSTEM ?

Hi Henry,
Henry Thomas wrote:
> Unfortunately on several I am getting "permission denied" under safe
> mode, under run as administrator, can't change the owner because I
> still get 'permission denied.'
>
this should work - you should be able to change permissions and take
ownership.
Did you try this also with disabled UAC?
Best greetings from Germany
Olaf

"Olaf Engelke [MVP Windows Server]" wrote:

> Hi Henry,
> Henry Thomas wrote:
> > Unfortunately on several I am getting "permission denied" under safe
> > mode, under run as administrator, can't change the owner because I
> > still get 'permission denied.'
> >
> this should work - you should be able to change permissions and take
> ownership.
> Did you try this also with disabled UAC?
> Best greetings from Germany
> Olaf
>
>

Hi

It took me 2.5 hours to go through dozens upon dozens of registry keys, flip
ownership and then change permissions....when trying to perform this at a
higher level and using the option for changing it for all keys below the one
I was working on, it failed....was painful and frustrating. I would rather
turn off UAC forever and deal with the risk than waste my Saturday fighting
with my OS on basic simple tasks.