Regedit: Access Denied

I am trying to delete some registry keys associated with drivers for my
digital camera. I am getting "Access Denied" errors when trying to delete or
change permissions on these keys. It will not let me add Administrator
permissions to these keys and it will not let me change the owner of the
keys. It says that I cannot view the permissions but that I can change them.
When I try to change them it says it was unable to change them. How can I
gain access to these keys?

Did you run regedit.exe as admin ? - (right click - run as ....).


Regards


On Sun, 1 Apr 2007 18:32:45 -0700, "Rich Bell" <rg_bell@nvbell.net>
wrote:

>I am trying to delete some registry keys associated with drivers for my
>digital camera. I am getting "Access Denied" errors when trying to delete or
>change permissions on these keys. It will not let me add Administrator
>permissions to these keys and it will not let me change the owner of the
>keys. It says that I cannot view the permissions but that I can change them.
>When I try to change them it says it was unable to change them. How can I
>gain access to these keys?

Yes, and I also tried logging in as an Administrator. This appears to be a
known issue since I have seen posts on various forums from others having the
same problem. It seems that the keys are owned by the System account and
cannot be modified, even by an administrator.

"Dennis_N" <dn@nospam.dk> wrote in message
news:d1q013pvnson8gf3eicpn6mmg6d2ej6rdt@4ax.com...
> Did you run regedit.exe as admin ? - (right click - run as ....).
>
>
> Regards
>
>
> On Sun, 1 Apr 2007 18:32:45 -0700, "Rich Bell" <rg_bell@nvbell.net>
> wrote:
>
>>I am trying to delete some registry keys associated with drivers for my
>>digital camera. I am getting "Access Denied" errors when trying to delete
>>or
>>change permissions on these keys. It will not let me add Administrator
>>permissions to these keys and it will not let me change the owner of the
>>keys. It says that I cannot view the permissions but that I can change
>>them.
>>When I try to change them it says it was unable to change them. How can I
>>gain access to these keys?

You have to take ownership of the keys first, and then you can change the
permissions to give you access.

You may have to restart regedit after taking ownership or after chaning
permissions before it will realize that the change has been made.


--
- JB
Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User

Windows Vista Support Faq
http://www.jimmah.com/vista/

I tried to take ownership and it says "access denied".

"Jimmy Brush" <jb@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:853DA6B2-6A49-4977-BD9C-89FBD5AB20DF@microsoft.com...
> You have to take ownership of the keys first, and then you can change the
> permissions to give you access.
>
> You may have to restart regedit after taking ownership or after chaning
> permissions before it will realize that the change has been made.
>
>
> --
> - JB
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User
>
> Windows Vista Support Faq
> http://www.jimmah.com/vista/

I would really like to see a viable solution to this issue.


"Rich Bell" <rg_bell@nvbell.net> wrote in message
news:2723FDDE-2B30-415E-A45B-D141210C5A45@microsoft.com...
>I tried to take ownership and it says "access denied".
>
> "Jimmy Brush" <jb@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:853DA6B2-6A49-4977-BD9C-89FBD5AB20DF@microsoft.com...
>> You have to take ownership of the keys first, and then you can change the
>> permissions to give you access.
>>
>> You may have to restart regedit after taking ownership or after chaning
>> permissions before it will realize that the change has been made.
>>
>>
>> --
>> - JB
>> Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User
>>
>> Windows Vista Support Faq
>> http://www.jimmah.com/vista/
>

I have been screwing with this problem for 2 weeks, I do hope someone finds a
solution. I totally belive its a Vista problem that only Microsoft can fix.
Surely they can afford to since the only give 90 days free support for this
operating system that we users will debug for them.
--
Helpless Ken


"Rich Bell" wrote:

> I am trying to delete some registry keys associated with drivers for my
> digital camera. I am getting "Access Denied" errors when trying to delete or
> change permissions on these keys. It will not let me add Administrator
> permissions to these keys and it will not let me change the owner of the
> keys. It says that I cannot view the permissions but that I can change them.
> When I try to change them it says it was unable to change them. How can I
> gain access to these keys?
>

Multiposted and answered numerous times.

--
Peter

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"GudGolf" <GudGolf@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:81DE6782-B9FC-4CA3-B651-834BD1A77940@microsoft.com...
>I have been screwing with this problem for 2 weeks, I do hope someone finds a
> solution. I totally belive its a Vista problem that only Microsoft can fix.
> Surely they can afford to since the only give 90 days free support for this
> operating system that we users will debug for them.
> --
> Helpless Ken
>
>
> "Rich Bell" wrote:
>
>> I am trying to delete some registry keys associated with drivers for my
>> digital camera. I am getting "Access Denied" errors when trying to delete or
>> change permissions on these keys. It will not let me add Administrator
>> permissions to these keys and it will not let me change the owner of the
>> keys. It says that I cannot view the permissions but that I can change them.
>> When I try to change them it says it was unable to change them. How can I
>> gain access to these keys?
>>