re: Found corrupt key in registry but won't let me delete
Friday, February 24, 2006 at 2:26 pm
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Posted by mj
(3 messages posted)
A) There isn't a usuable permission dialog box available for the corrupt key. First
when I click on the key it responds by saying that "Cannot Open : Error
while opening key". Second, when I right click and go to permissions a dialog box
pops up with "Unable to show security information" (OK and Cancel buttons active
only) There is not much to show. If you like I could get a screen shot of that.
On the other hand the parent root USB key has the permission dialog box with two
user settings EVERYONE and SYSTEM. EVERYONE have Read access active and faded out
and the SYSTEM having Read and Full Control active and faded out.
B) Exporting the corrupt key fails with the following message: "Selected branch does
not exist. Make sure that the correct path is given"
I successfully exported the USB key but found that the corrupted key was not included
in the file. I even tried to delete the USB path with the hope of restoring it with
exported file but that failed to with the following error message while trying to
delete it: "Cannot Delete USB : Error while deleting key"
You can find a copy of the reg file at
http://s137192784.onlinehome.us/library/USBreBackup.txt
C) There are a total of 26 keys in the first level branch below USB.
Appreciate all the help. Any ideas?
On Friday, February 24, 2006 at 12:54 pm, jcw wrote:
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>A) You said that there are no permission settings for the corrupt key for you to
>set.
>Could you explain that?
>What is there in the Permissions dialog box for the corrupt key?
>Does the Permissions dialog box for the USB key appear regular and allowing you
to
>make the deletion in regedit?
>If need be, do you have an upload service account somewhere that you could use to
>show a screen-shot of the Permission dialog box(es)?
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>B) Can you export the corrupt key to a convenient location, and then open (use the
>"edit" command in the right-click menu) the saved .reg file so we can see its contents?
>If not, how about the same thing for the USB key?
>
>C) How many subkeys are there in (under) the USB key?
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