{"id":1505,"date":"2015-08-28T15:15:15","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T09:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.58.113.91\/blog\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2020-11-24T02:27:47","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T02:27:47","slug":"how-to-take-ownership-of-registry-keys-and-assign-full-permissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/how-to-take-ownership-of-registry-keys-and-assign-full-permissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Ownership of a Registry Key And Assign Full Permissions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Certain areas of the Windows registry cannot be accessed due to the Permissions assigned (or lack thereof) for those keys. For instance, some registry keys are owned by the LocalSystem<\/a> account, and some are owned by TrustedInstaller<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are legitimate cases where you need to access a registry key to modify or retrieve a setting, and receive Access is Denied<\/i> or similar errors when doing so. Some of the errors you may encounter are:<\/p>\n

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Error Creating Key<\/strong><\/p>\n

<key name> cannot be opened. An error is preventing this key from being opened.
\nDetails: Access is denied.<\/p>\n

Cannot create key: You do not have the requisite permissions to create a new key under <key name>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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When dealing with a Malware infested PC, you may have to delete several registry entries manually in case the cleanup tool you use does not remove all of them. In most cases, you would get an error (\u201cError Deleting Key\u201d) stating that you don\u2019t have the permission to delete the specified branch. In that case, additional steps are required to reset the registry ACL permissions before removing the key.<\/p>\n

To get access to a protected registry key, you have two options.<\/p>\n