How to Take Ownership Restricted Windows Registry

Windows Registry Keys

When your windows system becomes crash or unstable sometime the problem that you found is in registry. When you try to edit or delete the registry you get an error message “Cannot delete XXXX: Error while deleting key“. Actually this message appears when you login to the computer without Administrator privilege. How about when you check that you are already using Administrator account? How come you still get this error message?
Follow the steps below for the solution

Note : Windows protects the registry keys from being easily modified for a safety reason, always make a backup of the registry that you want to edit or delete using the Export option and so make sure you know what you’re doing before messing with it. (Read : how to Backing up Windows Registry Manually)

1. Click Start->Run and type regedit
2. Right click on the key that you want to take full control of and select Permissions…



3. Click the Advanced button.
4. Go on the Owner tab. Select the user name that the current system is logged on, check “Replace owner on subcontainers and objects” and click OK.



5. Now you should be back at the Permissions window again. In Windows XP, click on EVERYONE and check Full Control for Allow. In Windows Vista, select the group that the currently logged on user belong to and check Full Control for Allow. Click OK.

Now you can modify and delete the protected registry keys

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