REGEDIT disabled by adminstrator ? I'm administrator !

Hello,
I recently tried to run REGEDIT only to be greeted with the following error box :-
registery editing has been disabled by your administrator .
Yet I am the administrator on my PC !!!
If I log in on my wifes account I can run it fine , but not on my own account!!
I've checked all account status and I'm shown as administrator etc.
Is this virus or spyware ??
I have ran Nortons , Avast ( normally and in safe mode ) nothing found
downloaded trial of Bitdefender and ran normally ( could not get it to run in safe mode)
any help gratefully received
Gaz

See Tip 275 in MVP Kelly's site:
Lift Restrictions - TM, Regedit and CMD
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm


If any problem there the manual setting is here:

Go to your Start>Run and type the following exactly between and without the
Quotes ("")

"REG DELETE HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Pol icies\System
/v DisableRegistryTools"

and/or

"REG DELETE HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Pol icies\System
/v DisableRegistryTools"

This behavior is usually changed by a virus. That being said you might want to run a HijackThis log by our Pros in that section.



Please follow the instructions HERE & then post your log in a new thread in the Spyware, Adware, Viruses and HijackThis Logs section.
(Not in this section please).

Please specify what issues you appear to be experiencing along with your log.

Thanks Jephree ,
that worked !!!!
I've set up ad-aware as suggested and just posted the results of Hijack This !!!
lets see what shows up !!!!!
Thanks again

Thanks for the update and the thanks!

Let us know if we can help further in the future!




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