Permissions Problems

CupHead · December 18, 2003, 09:18 AM

Something recently changed my permissions on the system registry and I can no longer load controls into Visual Basic (permission denied). This wouldn't be so bad, but I also can't send and receive from Outlook because of an OLE registration error. My best guess is that installing/uninstalling some problem ended up corrupting my permissions. Does anyone happen to know which ones need to be fixed and where I can set them?

I tried using regedit to give my account full registry access, but that caused even more problems than having none for some reason.

Grok · December 18, 2003, 09:59 AM

Use RegMon from SysInternals to find the conflict.

CupHead · December 18, 2003, 12:40 PM

I tried and the keys were HKLM, but giving myself permissions to those keys didn't solve the problem. Decided to format and reinstall anyway. (This time I think I saved the CSB source. =P)

Skywing · December 18, 2003, 12:41 PM

Quote from: CupHead on December 18, 2003, 12:40 PM
I tried and the keys were HKLM, but giving myself permissions to those keys didn't solve the problem. Decided to format and reinstall anyway. (This time I think I saved the CSB source. =P)

Is this where we say 'I told you so' re: running with full privileges? A limited account definitely wouldn't have had write access to those keys.

Oh, and you should make regular backups, too...

CupHead · December 18, 2003, 12:44 PM

Um... I was on a limited account and that was the problem. If I were running as Administrator, there wouldn't have been any conflicts.

Skywing · December 18, 2003, 12:50 PM

Quote from: CupHead on December 18, 2003, 12:44 PM
Um... I was on a limited account and that was the problem. If I were running as Administrator, there wouldn't have been any conflicts.

In that case the fallback solution is simply to create a new account, not reformat the whole system.

CupHead · December 18, 2003, 12:52 PM

Been there, tried that. Same issues.

Adron · December 18, 2003, 06:55 PM

The times I have registry troubles is when the registry doesn't get properly flushed to disk before a crash and then windows claims that the hive can't be loaded...

Skywing · December 18, 2003, 06:57 PM

Quote from: Adron on December 18, 2003, 06:55 PM
The times I have registry troubles is when the registry doesn't get properly flushed to disk before a crash and then windows claims that the hive can't be loaded...

Fortunately, these problems are easy to resolve with up-to-date backups.

Adron · December 18, 2003, 07:03 PM

They are? How do you resolve them?

Skywing · December 18, 2003, 07:24 PM

Quote from: Adron on December 18, 2003, 07:03 PM
They are? How do you resolve them?

Boot to a WinPE CD, run ntbackup, extract the hive in question, replace the damaged version, reboot.

Adron · December 18, 2003, 07:26 PM

If you have a WinPE CD.

Skywing · December 18, 2003, 07:27 PM

Quote from: Adron on December 18, 2003, 07:26 PM
If you have a WinPE CD.

Which you can easily make yourself... http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder