Symptoms
1. User is log-in to Windows 7, and windows account is having administrative privileges. When user opens windows regedit (C:\windows\regedit.exe) or regedt32 by Run As Administrator and try to delete some registry keys, a error message pops-up, saying “Access denied.." or "cannot delete… .Error while deleting key.":
On selecting Yes, a error message pops-up:
2. When trying to assign Permissions, Full Control or trying to add an user using Advanced options, it gets error “Access Denied” :
3. User has tried to activate the default Administrator account on Windows 7, using following command at cmd.exe (Run as Administrator):
net user administrator /active:yes
But, the Administrator account is also facing the same errors.
Solution
A simple solution is, download free utility PsExec from http://technet.microsoft.com/ en-us/sysinternals/bb897553. aspx
Open cmd.exe (Run as Administrator), and type following command to get Full Control of registry:
Now, user should have Full Control of registry and the registry keys can be deleted easily. The PsExec tool should be used carefully, it is a system utility.
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