See also "Prevent Access to Registry Editing Tools policy changes in Windows XP and in Windows Server 2003" http://support.microsoft.c
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I administer a Windows Server 2003 system with about a dozen XP clients. As part of a security lockdown, a policy was established such that users (even local administrators) on the XP clients cannot edit the registry.
I need to disable this lockout temporarily, but someone else set this up cannot remember which administrative tool on the Server he used to accomplish this. Would appreciate the "path" to the appropriate place to disable the registry lockout-- such as Start/Program/..... etc....
Thank you!
Don P.
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See also "Prevent Access to Registry Editing Tools policy changes in Windows XP and in Windows Server 2003" http://support.microsoft.c
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by: wpadronPosted on 2007-07-05 at 10:43:52ID: 19425828
There is actually a specific Group Policy to do exactly what you are asking.
ve Templates/System/'Prevent access to registry editing tools'
Go to User Configuration/Administrati
If you enable this setting on your Windows XP systems, users will not be able to open up the registry.
Regards