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Posted by Massimo on April 23, 2008, 11:53 pm
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Hello,
>Massimo wrote:
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>>>Right-click on it and change permissions to add the Administrators group
>>>(presumably you are logged in under an admin-level account which you
>>>would need to be changing permissions). Give full control to the
>>>Administrators group.
>>
>> Goddamn... this does not work. Ik tried to add the Administrators
>> group but after clicking on o.k. it does not add it to SYSTEM that
>> already has the permissions. I tried it also with my more personal
>> usersname under which I do have the necessary permissions for the 'one
>> step higher' key, but it is refused ('Name not found', The object with
>> the name (etc.) does not come from a domain that belongs to the
>> dialogue window Choose location, and thus is invalid.)
>
>Are you logging under a local or domain account?
I suppose you would call it a local account.(my own computer at home,
not in any network)
>Domain accounts that
>are in an adminstrators group (for that host only or a group of them)
>may not give you all the permissions that you are expecting. Domain
>administrators can still be restricted so they are not *full*
>administrators. Try logging on using a /local/ admin account, if you
>have one and know its password. Try using the /local/ Administrator
>account to login. I was assuming you had *full* admin privileges but
>maybe you don't. Or maybe the Adminstrators *group* was modified so
>those accounts don't have full privileges and you have to instead login
>under the Administrator account.
>
>> Interesting, though I do not work with Vista myself yet.
>
>Um, are you asking about doing this registry stuff on Windows Vista? No
>version of Windows was mentioned in your post. I'm still using Windows
>XP (and am not going to bother with Vista). Under UAC (User Account
>Control) in Vista, *all* users are standard users most of the time,
>including those with administrative rights. Did you disable UAC?
>
>If you're playing around with Vista, might be better to ask in a Vista
>newsgroup regarding how to change permissions when registry editing.
I am not working with Vista (yet) as I stated before.
Thank you for reacting,
Massimo
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