How To Enable Regedit In Windows 7 Home Premium

While checking the registry on my motorcar because of the issues I had with Task Manager, described in this post, I noticed that I was unable to start Registry Editor.

When trying to run regedit, I would get a message saying

"Registry editing has been disabled past your ambassador"

Regedit Disabled — Disabled Registry Editor

Enable Registry Editor (regedit) in Local Grouping Policy with gpedit.msc

This can exist changed by editing Local Group Policy with gpedit.msc.

Click Win+R keys to open Run dialog interface, and effect gpedit.msc command to open up Local Group Policy Editor.

Navigate to:

User Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Preclude access to registry editing tools.

Enable regedit in Group Policy — Enable Registry Editor in Grouping Policy

This should by default be set to Not Configured, which should not prevent you from starting Registry Editor.

It was assault Not Configured on my machine already, and then I set information technology to Disabled, and this enabled dorsum Registry Editor for me.

Interestingly, afterward returning the setting back to Not Configured, Registry Editor did non get disabled again.

This seems to have got disabled during installation of some drivers, and even exercise Local Grouping Policy was set on Not Configured, it seem some registry values were set to disable registry editing tools from running, and switching back betwixt Enabled, and Not Configured seems to take return them to default values.

Alternating possible methods of enabling regedit.

Alternate method 1:

Click Offset -> Run. Type this command in Run box and press Ok.

REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableRegistryTools /t REG_DWORD /d 0

A prompt should come up up with this question:

Value DisableRegistryTools exists, overwrite (Y/N)?

Type yes and striking Enter.

After that, also blazon this command in the run box and hit enter.

REG add HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /5 DisableRegistryTools /t REG_DWORD /d 0

Then a prompt should come with this question:

Value DisableRegistryTools exists, overwrite (Y/N)?

Type yes and hit Enter.

Alternating method ii:

STEP1. Disable as much as you can from your startup. Remove programs from your startup folder and such, so as not to lag downwards the boot process.

STEP2.Create a new shortcut on your desktop, point it to "C:\Windows\regedit.exe"

STEP3.Log off, and then log back on.

STEP4.As presently as you see your desktop, double-click on the shortcut. The organization does non bank check for policies until a few seconds after it booted upwardly. If you click on the icon fast enough, it should let y'all go far.

After you close it though, it will not open unless you redo step 3 and iv.

Alternate method 3:

Become into the registry editor by making a vbs script in notepad:

Open Notepad and copy this script into it. And salve it equally regtool.vbs on your desktop.

VBS SCRIPT(select everything and re-create into notepad and save equally regtool.vbs):

Selection Explicit  'Declare variables  Dim WSHShell, rr, rr2, MyBox, val, val2, ttl, toggle  Dim jobfunc, itemtype  On Error Resume Next  Set WSHShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")  val = "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Organisation\DisableRegistryTools"  val2 = "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\DisableRegistryTools"  itemtype = "REG_DWORD"  jobfunc = "Registry Editing Tools are now "  ttl = "Outcome"  'reads the registry central value.  rr = WSHShell.RegRead (val)  rr2 = WSHShell.RegRead (val2)  toggle=1  If (rr=1 or rr2=i) And so toggle=0  If toggle = 1 And then  WSHShell.RegWrite val, 1, itemtype  WSHShell.RegWrite val2, 1, itemtype  Mybox = MsgBox(jobfunc & "disabled.", 4096, ttl)  Else  WSHShell.RegDelete val  WSHShell.RegDelete val2  Mybox = MsgBox(jobfunc & "enabled.", 4096, ttl)  End If

Open regtool.vbs ,and you should be able to admission Registry Editor then.