registry ediditing has been disabled by your administrator how to enable

You should click on "the answer" on the comment you made above about creating a new username fixing the problem, then delete my last two comments.

This error can be caused by either 1) a virus or 2) the administrator actually disabling access to it. Do you have administrator access to this computer?

yes I believe I have how am I to know for certain

thanks I just cannot grasp what I have to do I have posted another user nane and it as done the trick thanks once again in tring to help J.O`B

what version of windows are you running?

try start->run then type in "control userpasswords2" and see what group the current logged on user is in.

how are you running regedit to get the error?
click start->run then type in "regedit" (without the quotes). Does this give the same error?

windowsxp sp2 put in regedit same error

Type your comment here

Ok, try start->run then type in "control userpasswords2" and see what group the current logged on user is in.

username group
administator administrator
joe obrien administrator
this is how it appears when perform the given task

Copy everything starting with "On Error Resume Next" into a text file called registry.vbs, then double click it:

On Error Resume Next
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

WshShell.RegDelete "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\DisableRegistryTools"
WshShell.RegDelete "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\DisableRegistryTools"

Message = "Done"

X = MsgBox(Message, vbOKOnly, "Done")
Set WshShell = Nothing
Set fso = Nothing

Just checking, but did you get the email stating this question was marked abandoned and asking you to mark one of the posts as the answer?

Any luck with this? Did it work? If something else worked, please post what worked and mark it as the answer.

nevermind, ignore that last post :) didnt see that it was marked as answered :)