TuneUp Utilities 2010's Windows Customizer, the application that can change Windows behaveior, logon behaveior, drives shown in Computer, QoS Service etc. can indeed corrupt the permissions of HKCR, particularly when using it to edit the options appearing in the "New" dialog but also others.
I would like too thank you guys for this post. My Ex Father-In-Law had this prob and it seems too have cured the probleme.
FYI: If the owner is missing from a key(s), you must run this in two steps.
subinacl HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /setowner=Administrators
subinacl HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /grant=Administrators=f /grant=System=f /grant=Users=r
That worked for me. The single line version did not.
Running the:
secedit /configure /CFG %SystemRoot%\inf\defltbase.inf /DB defltbase.sdb /verbose /areas REGKEYS
command resets all Registry Keys to the out-of-the-box settings just like when you installed the OS.
There is no need to add the above permissions, and in fact you may change some keys that are NOT supposed to have those permissions set. Microsoft was tricky when setting up the reg permissions in Windows 7 to help protect the OS. -WS
Thanks allot! Great advice. I used it and all is well.
I found that the subinacl had a problem anyway - took two runs for some reason it did not fix the lowest subkey... anyway - your suggestion is the way to go.
Jack
P.S. Does Apple know that it is doing this to machines? In my case this occurrs when attempting to install the latest iTunes+Quicktime version. Messes up permissions on the new keys entered for quicktime and appears to damage the top level perms as well. Or is this caused by something like - my having the UAC turned off because it is irritating.
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