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

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 01:42:53 +0000

Eureka! I wasn’t able to install my new Office 2007 because of registry key problems. Microsoft wouldn’t help. I couldn’t figure it out on my own. This fix worked. Thank you!

By: Graeme Henderson

Graeme Henderson — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 01:19:46 +0000

I too join the chorus of praise for this simple but highly effective fix!

By: devanir

devanir — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:25:24 +0000

this helps with
media player
internet explorer
hp drivers
codecs
filters

By: Neal

Neal — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 03:23:41 +0000

Just used this to also repair USB device access issues. No new device would install. Tried every other solution on the net. This one worked first time perfectly.

Thanks
Neal

By: danno

danno — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 03:41:29 +0000

The SECEDIT fix will also correct the issue of PNG’s not displaying in IE7. It’s an issue of something (possibly Flash or Quicktime based on my own experience) breaking the permissions in the registry.

By: Harshal Dekate

Harshal Dekate — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:59:25 +0000

Thanks a lot. We had the issue with Group Policy. Domain Policy unable to perform any changes in some machines registry due to which our Policy was failed during changes in registry. This is permission issue.

Now issue has beed fixed by using cmd “secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\repair\secsetup.inf /db secsetup.sdb /verbose”

Thanks again for your article.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 05:12:55 +0000

Thank You!

You’re tip regarding reset.cmd has saved my wife’s computer after a virus attack. I was able to remove the virus, but after many attempts to install SP1 & SP3, I was stumped. Access denied every time. After I ran reset, the computer is now back to normal. Thank you so much.

Steve

By: Devvie Nuis

Devvie Nuis — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:45:13 +0000

Thank you very much; your solution repaired all the in-accessible hardware USB hives. I could not attach a new screen nor usb devices to this computer. Did not feel like a manual track-all-faulty-hw-id’s-and-fix-it-yourself solution. Yours worked like a charm!

Peace!

Devnullius

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:25:02 +0000

The above solution for XP Home worked! Thanks so much! I was fixing a computer for my wife’s cousin. It had 300 or so files infected and after cleaning it, I was unable to run any windows updates. I have been trying to figure this out for 3 days.

By: Daniel-san

Daniel-san — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 04:17:08 +0000

Totally helped me out with a XP SP2 box that 1) wouldn’t update with Windows update and 2) would not install SP3 without the Access Denied error. Now SP3 is installed and Win Updates are already downloading. Thanks a bunch.