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Regestry changes denied

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jema

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Got some POS SW installed against my will on a 2000 machine and I cant get rid of its regestry entries, says they can not be accessed or are in use or somthing like that. Wierd thing is that I have gutted the prog from the machine so how come the regedtries are used? Anyway around this? Is it possible to make reg changes with the recovery console?
 
No, you cannot edit the registry from recovery console. God would that make my job easier!

Registry keys, just like files on NTFS, have permissions. If you're an administrator, you can give yourself permissions to the registry keys.

Use regedt32 (NOT regedit!), go to the key you want to delete, give yourself permissions to the key, and delete it.

The usual you-can-hose-yourself-by-mucking-with-the-registry rule applies.
 
Thanx! I managed to solve it in another way though. I installed one of the compability updates I now I have no sound (so much for that...) so I deceided to uninstall the modem speaker that the system wanted to use only to then discover that this POS sw installs itself partly as a hw device, unsintalled that and now it is gone.
 
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