When I open regedit in Windows 7, I get
"Registry editing has been disabled by your administrator"
Can I open it someway in readonly mode? Or does anyone know how can I see values in the registry?
When I open regedit in Windows 7, I get
"Registry editing has been disabled by your administrator"
Can I open it someway in readonly mode? Or does anyone know how can I see values in the registry?
Non-administrators have the same registry 'read' rights as administrators.
You also have full write access (Full Control) to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER key.
To open the registry:
Please note:
Some sections of the registry are locked to all users (Admin or Non-Admin), for example HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SECURITY
If your system is configured to disallow the use of 'regedit' you will need to speak with your system administrator. Giving advice on how to circumvent this would be unethical and likely against the superuser terms of use.
Use reg query
in cmd. It does not need admin privileges.
regedit
; it's a matter of group policy restrictions, which I assume both regedit
and reg
follow.
Jul 10, 2011 at 9:31
regedit
as a User on Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Vista, and 7.
Jul 10, 2011 at 9:54
Probably your administrator had disabled from group policy the right of opening registry editors.
Go to Run » gpedit.msc
» User Configuration » Administrative Templates » System » "Prevent access to registry editing tools". Disable it or choose "Not Configured".
The main problem is that reg query
doesn't work, giving the same error:
ERROR: Registry editing has been disabled by your administrator.
… or this sounds to me as a bug in Windows 7. On Windows XP, reg query
is working fine, without any problem if "Prevent access to registry editing tools" is Enabled.