How to enable Registry Editor if it is disabled by the administrator
Some malwares disables the registry editor to prevent removal of their startup entries. Usually the message reads like
Registry editing has been disabled by your administrator
Basically the malware adds the registry entries
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\DisableRegistryTools
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\DisableRegistryTools
and puts a value of 1 for them. This prevents the registry editor(regedit.exe) to be started.
This can be easily solved by changing the value from 0 to 1 or just delete DisableRegistryTools entry. Since the registry editor cannot be started I've create a VBS script file to restore the options.
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