I am completely locked out of Regedit

[mattwilkinson7]

I am an Admin user, and I needed to disable access to Regedit for non admin users. Therefore I created the following key in Regedit;

 

HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies/System/DisableRegistryTools. I set DisableRegistryTools to a value of 1.

 

Unfortunately now I am locked out of Regedit as an admin as well, and because I made the change in Regedit, I cannot get back in.

 

I have tried changing the registry key using command prompt but this didn't work. Does anyone have any suggestions?

 

Thanks.

 

Also while I'm here, I need to remove the PowerShell folder from the Windows 10 application list for non admin users, how could I do that?

[pantscat]

Re-enable it using Group Policy:

 

User Config\Admin Templates\System\Prevent Access To registry Editing Tools="Disabled"

[free780]

Or use powershell to delete the key.

[FN-GM]

Bit of a tip for you

 

HKLM = Local Machine.

HKCU = Current User

 

When you change anything in local machine it will apply to all users on the computer. Current user will only apply changes to the user who is logged in.