Disabled Registry Editor question

[BlueSky 0]

I'm using Xp+SP2, and I have the administrator rights. I can't run the regedit getting a message stating that "Registry Editing is disabled by administrator".

This happened after I scanned my computer and found some Trojans and cleaned them. Any ideas to solve my frustration are welcome.

 

Thanks in advance

[adamvjackson 0]

I've heard of some viruses disabling access to regedit, as well as other utilities.

 

Might want to have a scan with Stinger and Housecall just to make sure you're really clean.

[DS3Circuit 0]

Does the shell make a difference? If you cant start the process from START / RUN and you start regedit from CMD.EXE

 

Have you been playing with local policies on the machine?

 

Can you access your registry with a 3rd party tool?

http://www.resplendence.com/reglite

 

Besides running a fully updated AV, I would also run adaware and spybot.

[h-y-b-r-i-d 0]

Hi I had a friend over last night and he brought sum1 with him, the guy knew alot about computer and when i woke up this morning i cant see any of my drives (runnung xp-sp2 btw) cant see the shutdown computer buton in start menu, cant see run in start menu, cant acces any drives by just typing in the drive letter i get "access to the resource"c" has been disabled" although i can get around each of these things i would rather have them on my comp because i prefer getting around fast. thx

[h-y-b-r-i-d 0]

solution here http://www.softheap.com/restrictions/hide_drives_in_my_computer_002a.html

 

nvm