Please Help, Registry edits won't stay persistent - Windows Vista

[JoLLyRoGer]

I'm trying to edit a few registry keys related to Windows firewall however in one case I can't get the DWORD to retain my changes more than a few minutes and also there are three cases where I'm trying to manipuate a REG_SZ value to reflect a different path for logging and those changes won't stay either.

What I've done so far:

As a local administrator,
-changed permissions to full control and have taken ownership of the registry keys in question.

-un-checked inherit settings and copied the current settings into the key.

-set the desired key values and re-ran regedit to double check then rebooted.

-set the desired key values and did a simple refresh.

In every case the registry values revert to their previous setting either after the reboot or after only a few minutes.

What am I missing here? It's got to be something obvious like a "shadow" registry and a service that refreshes the values or something stupid like that.

Thanks
-JR

 

[mpilchfamily]

It could be a a service that refreshes the values. Wouldn'y have a clue as to where to start looking to find out which one it may be.

 

[Zargon]

system restore doesnt fudge with reg stuff does it?

 

[JoLLyRoGer]

OK, I figured it out. Turns out group policy was re-setting the registry keys. Once I went into there, customized the firewall settings and did a gpupdate /force, all is well.

Just thought I'd share that. Thanks anyway!
-JR