{"id":7773,"date":"2016-09-20T02:09:36","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T02:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=7773"},"modified":"2016-09-20T02:09:36","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T02:09:36","slug":"take-ownership-permission-of-registry-key-in-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/take-ownership-permission-of-registry-key-in-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Take Ownership (Permission) of Protected Registry Key in Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes you might encounter some registry keys that are protected by Windows. When you try to edit, rename or delete a protected registry key or value, you’ll get one of the following errors:<\/p>\n

“Cannot edit {value_name}: Error writing the value’s new contents.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“The Registry Editor cannot rename {key_name}. Error while renaming key.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Unable to delete all specified values.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Cannot delete {key_name}: Error while deleting key.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"error-edit-registry-value\"<\/p>\n

Even you’re logged in as Administrator, you might still lack permissions to edit a protected registry key. In such cases, you need to take ownership of that particular key and grant full permissions to your signed-in account. This step-by-step tutorial will guide you how to take full ownership of protected registry key in Windows 10.<\/p>\n

How to Take Full Ownership of Protected Registry Key?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. To start, press the Windows logo key + R on your physical keyboard, type regedit<\/strong> and press Enter to open the Windows Registry<\/a>.\n

    \"regedit-via-run\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  2. Navigate to the protected key you want to take ownership of. For this example, we chose the following key:\n

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\SystemProtectedUserData\\S-1-5-21-1176301877-597599738-4051979053-1001\\AnyoneRead\\Logon<\/code><\/li>\n

  3. Right-click on the protected key, and select Permissions<\/strong> from the context menu that appears.\n

    \"edit-registry-permissions\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  4. In the Permissions window that appears, Click Advanced<\/strong>.\n

    \"registry-key-permissons\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  5. In the Advanced Security Settings dialog, you can see the current owner (SYSTEM<\/em> or “TrustedInstaller<\/em>“) of your selected key. Click on Change<\/strong> button.\n

    \"change-registry-owner\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  6. This will open a new dialog box. Now type your user account name, and then click on “Check Names<\/strong>” button to convert the username to correct format. Click OK<\/strong>.\n

    \"select-registry-owner\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  7. Now you’ll see that your user account is showing up as the owner. Check the “Replace owner on subcontainers and objects<\/strong>” option if you also want to take ownership of the subkeys. Click OK<\/strong>.\n

    \"replace-owner-on-subkeys\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  8. When back to the Permissions window, select the desired user name and then check Allow<\/strong> checkbox under the Full Control<\/strong> row, and click OK<\/strong>.\n

    \"modify-registry-permissions\"<\/p>\n

    If your user account is not shown under the Group and user names list, click on Add<\/strong> button.<\/li>\n

  9. Close Registry Editor. Now you’ve taken ownership of a protected registry key and grant your account full permissions. That’s it!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Sometimes you might encounter some registry keys that are protected by Windows. When you try to edit, rename or delete a protected registry key or value, you’ll get one of the following errors: “Cannot edit {value_name}: Error writing the value’s new contents.” “The Registry Editor cannot rename {key_name}. Error while renaming key.” “Unable to delete […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1894],"tags":[2963,2962,2964,2961],"class_list":["post-7773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","tag-change-registry-permissions","tag-take-ownership-of-registry-key","tag-take-ownership-of-windows-registry","tag-take-ownership-registry-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7773"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7789,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7773\/revisions\/7789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}