Comments on: Reset the Registry and the File Permissions in Windows XP

By: Ramesh Srinivasan

Ramesh Srinivasan — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:46:33 +0000

SECEDIT.EXE isn’t available in Windows XP Home Edition, Jeff. Please use SubInACL instead.

By: Jeff Owen

Jeff Owen — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:23:38 +0000

I ran the reset.cmd just fine. However, I get to a point where the dos prompt shows:

c:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools>secedit /configure /cfg C:\Windows\repair\secsetup.inf /db secsetup.sdb /verbose
’secedit’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

I’m running Windows XP Home SP2 and trying desparately to upgrade to SP3, in the hopes this might get me closer to resolving issues with the computer just turning off with no warning (event viewer shows some HP Pci error message).

By: dave mellor

dave mellor — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:36:39 +0000

Greetings Mr. Walker,

I’ve used this tool before to fix other ‘unfixable’ computers where the problem was due to the registry permissions (ie: Can’t install Flash on Internet Explorer) but for some reason I couldn’t get it to run this time around.

Sure enough, your comment on changing the double quotes was right on the money!

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for taking the time to document the fix to the original fix that allows stuff like SP3 to finally install on a system that had been running Avast or to install a new version of Flash in IE7!

Cheers!

db mellor

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 12:23:15 +0000

Worked like a charm. Thanks!

By: srinath

srinath — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:42:16 +0000

Hi, SECEDIT- Dnt work
###########Use following###############
Gpupdate——–Refreshes local and Active Directory–based Group Policy settings, including security settings. This command supersedes the now obsolete /refreshpolicy option for the secedit command.
######http://srinathbugz.blogspot.com/###########

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:09:00 +0000

Thanks SKILLET that worked nicely…I changed the top line of the copy and pasted reset.cmd file and saved it…closed out of it and double clicked on the reset file on my desktop and it ran!

By: jill

jill — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 06:09:02 +0000

Skillet – thank you thank you thank you!! reset cmd is now running like mad with the change to the first line of the file. Hopefully I’ll now be able to load SP3. I had a hard drive failure and am starting from scratch – getting “access denied” has been VERY frustrating!

By: Paul Messenger

Paul Messenger — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:01:13 +0000

Fantastic! Have been trying for weeks to load SP2 on XP Home edition and none of the MS support sites helped at all! Thanks.

By: Shelton Keisling

Shelton Keisling — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:50:58 +0000

I ran the reset script and it appeared to run correctly. However now I have no functional internet connection to my computer. Windows explorer apparently finds web pages, but I just get a white window (not the usual “web page is unavailable” message or whatever it normally says). I don’t believe I’ve ever seen that before. Also my email program cannot find a server now. My cable modem is functional (I have another computer with a wireless connection to the same router and the internet works fine on that one), so the reset somehow disabled something within this computer.

BTW, I never could install SP3. And at the moment now, I’m not caring to much about that. I just want my internet back.

Any ideas?

By: J

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:09:00 +0000

KellyWalter make sure the subinacl.exe file is in windows/system32 dir before runing the script