29 Aug08

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After many months of hunting for a way to make my iTunes install (after getting a message about a STUPID REGISTRY KEY BEING LOCKED and trying to unlock it) I finally found a forum (and the post on the forum) which helped me. And here it is:

for any registry permission issues try this
by gopinath_sastra - 17/07/05 21:30
In reply to: Same problem with permissions by edcycles
when trying to install any application if you get a messafe "you need to log in as administrator access denied" messages you can try this i got the message when i was trying to activate ArcView even though i logged in as the default administrator and gave full permissions for ArcView folder the following will put the registry permissions to its default level
1. Download and install subinacl from:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e8ba3e56-d8fe-4a91-93cf-ed6985e3927b&displaylang=en
2. Create a file named reset.cmd in C:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools folder.
3. Edit the reset.cmd file with the following content.
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE /grant=administrators=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CURRENT_USER /grant=administrators=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /grant=administrators=f
subinacl /subdirectories %SystemDrive% /grant=administrators=f

subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE /grant=systems=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CURRENT_USER /grant=system=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /grant=system=f
subinacl /subdirectories %SystemDrive% /grant=system=f

4. Enter into CMD prompt.
5. Enter the following commands one at a time and click Enter.

cd\
cd "C:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools"
reset.cmd

From here.

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