Deleting Reg Key

[hole896]

I am having problems deleting a Reg Key...I think it is corrupt...I have made myself the owner...Any suggestions?

 

[Brink]

Hello Hole, and welcome to Seven Forums.

What registry key are you trying to delete?

You do not want to just delete a registry key unless you know what it is for. Doing so could leave you reinstalling Windows 7.

Have you also set permissions for the key to "Allow" your account "Full control" of it before trying to delete it? Step 3 in OPTION THREE of the tutorial below can help show you more on this for now if needed.

Take Ownership of file

 

[hole896]

I have took ownership...and I know I need to delete the Reg Key...Its for a game.

 

[Brink]

You may just need to also set permissions for it as well before being able to delete it.

 

[hole896]

Cannot delete Arma 2 OA Key: Error while deleting Key.

 

[Brink]

Did you already set permissions?

 

[hole896]

Yes

 

[Brink]

Could you post a screenshot showing the full error message you got, the registry key, and the permission and ownership settings for the registry key to see if this may help?

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/9733-screenshots-files-upload-post-seven-forums.html

 

[hole896]

 

[Dwarf]

The key is in the HKLM branch. You need to invoke the registry editor as an administrator. Even though you're an administrator, running regedit (or indeed any other program) as normal means that it is running under your standard user token (Administrators have 2 modus operandii - standard and elevated). You need to right-click on the program (in this case, regedit) and choose Run as administrator.

 

[hole896]

Where is regedit located?

 

[C-11]

Where is regedit located?

Type regedit into search.

 

[hole896]

Okay

 

[hole896]

Still wont work...same error.

 

[Brink]

Enable the built-in Administrator account, log on to it, and see if you may be able to delete the registry key now.

 

[hole896]

Didn't work...still!!

 

[Brink]

In that case, you could try doing a system restore using a restore point (if available) dated before you installed the game to remove it.

 

[hole896]

Cant restore

 

[Brink]

Double check to make sure that you have also taken ownership of and set permissions to "allow" your account "full control" of all subkeys of the "Bohemia Interactive Studio" key. Afterwards try deleting it.

 

[hole896]

I have tried everything...I think it is corrupted...and should that be preventing me from deleting it?