Is there a program that will find a certain permission in the registry?

nahmus · Nov 16, 2005

Hi all,
I have a Pc that is having a problem installing SP2. Everytime It installs It errors out with a "permission denied" error. Every time it comes up with a different registry key. Is there a program that I could run that would search the registry for all keys that are missing the write permission for administrator? So far the two keys that I've found have no permissions as all.

nahmus · Nov 17, 2005

I just tried some trial versions of registry cleaners and not one has an option for invalid permissions.

any ideas?

stool · Nov 17, 2005

Are you actually logged in as Administrator?

nahmus · Nov 17, 2005

yes. both as the administrator and another user that has admin rights.

turd · Nov 17, 2005

Well I would guess that you could use Regmon from here and perhaps you can get right to the error key, but not sure if it would work in your situation. Its freeware.

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html

Stedeman · Nov 17, 2005

Check to make sure you didn't adjust the admins GP rights to not allow updates.

nahmus · Nov 17, 2005

Everytime i keep running it it keeps coming up with a new key that has no permissions assigned to it. The company cannot find the original install CD's so at this point I'm not sure whatto do. Might trythe programming forums. maybe someone can whip up a program.

turd · Nov 17, 2005

Dont know exactly what your sit is but are your sure that your SP2/media is not corrupt?

nahmus · Nov 17, 2005

I've used the autodownload version, The full download version and the SP2 disk that I keep in my bag.

When i first got thePC to fix it was pretty corrupted with spyware and viri (virii? ). I canusually recover from an infection this bad but not this time.

Plus everytime it errors out there is a new registry key (looking at the install log file) that it errors out on. when i look at the key it has no permissions.

redwraith94 · Nov 17, 2005

You could try running Sfc.exe with your old disk first. It may be some other corrupted file of windows. Other than that you could try the regedt32.exe. Select one of the five main branches, then when you open the security tab, and select permissions, highlight the user that you normally would, and click on advanced. There is a checkbox for "reset permissions on all child objects, and enable the propagation of inheritable permissions" do that for all five keys. I think that should work.

nahmus · Nov 17, 2005

redwraith94 said:
Other than that you could try the regedt32.exe. Select one of the five main branches, then when you open the security tab, and select permissions, highlight the user that you normally would, and click on advanced. There is a checkbox for "reset permissions on all child objects, and enable the propagation of inheritable permissions" do that for all five keys. I think that should work.

Hmmm I did not think of that. Good idea. I'll give it a try. Thanks!

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