Access Regedit Without Using Run

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Hello, I know how to Set the Start button properties to remove run from the start menu and I know how to use regedit to stop the start button settings from being changed but if I do both then I’ll be locking that user setting out of the registry. Is there any way to get into the registry without using the run button?

Thanks,

Chris (Hunt)

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You can use Task Manager (if you haven’t disabled that too ):
– Activate Task Manager.
– Activate the Applications tab.
– Click “New Task…”.
– Type regedit and click OK.

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You can use Task Manager (if you haven’t disabled that too ):
– Activate Task Manager.
– Activate the Applications tab.
– Click “New Task…”.
– Type regedit and click OK.

Thanks Hans, I don’t know where to find Task Manager – never used it and I’ve probably killed it off long ago. Just realised I can use AutoHotKey to set a keyboard combination to launch regedit.

Chris

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Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to start Task Manager.

Or press Ctrl+Alt+Del. Depending on the way your Windows is set up, this will either start Task Manager directly or bring up a dialog from which you can start Task Manager.

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Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to start Task Manager.

Or press Ctrl+Alt+Del. Depending on the way your Windows is set up, this will either start Task Manager directly or bring up a dialog from which you can start Task Manager.

Doh! . I was thinking of the thing that schedules tasks. I knew about ctr+alt+del but not ctrl+shift+esc. I hadn’t noticed the new task option off the file menu before. Using AutoHotKey will be quicker but it’s good to know that option. Thanks for filling in a big gap in my knowledge.

Chris

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Doh! . I was thinking of the thing that schedules tasks. I knew about ctr+alt+del but not ctrl+shift+esc. I hadn’t noticed the new task option off the file menu before. Using AutoHotKey will be quicker but it’s good to know that option. Thanks for filling in a big gap in my knowledge.

Chris

You can also activate task manager by right clicking on the taskbar, and then clicking ‘Task Manager’.

You can open regedit by navigating to c:windowssystem32regedt32.exe

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You can open regedit by navigating to c:windowssystem32regedt32.exe

Or, better, and with identical results, C:windowsregedit.exe !

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Or, better, and with identical results, C:windowsregedit.exe !

Hmm. I didn’t know that was there

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By the way, even if you removed Run from the Start menu, you may still be able to open the Run dialog by pressing Windows key + R.

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Try “Ctrl-Alt-Del”, in all Windows OS’s either the Task Manager will open or a selection of other options including Task Manager.

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Is there any way to get into the registry without using the run button?

Thanks,

Chris (Hunt)

Why, sure! Just create a shortcut to “C:WINDOWSRegEdit.EXE” and launch same.

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Or create a .REG file with the registry changes you want to make and double-click it

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One additional option is to start a command prompt window and then type regedit as a command.c

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You can also access the registry using a VBA programm, see for example this thread on codeguru

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One of the things that strikes me reading this thread is (which I already knew, of course) that Windows is never usually content with leaving you only one way of doing something!

Ian

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One of the things that strikes me reading this thread is (which I already knew, of course) that Windows is never usually content with leaving you only one way of doing something!

Ian

Actually, it should be stated the other way ’round — that Windows is famous for offering its users multitudinous ways of doing the exact same thing.

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Actually, it should be stated the other way ’round — that Windows is famous for offering its users multitudinous ways of doing the exact same thing.

…for a lot of functions, three ways.

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If you want to disable ‘regedit’, here’s the only way I know:

This restriction disables the ability to interactively run the standard Microsoft registry editing tools such as REGEDIT and REGEDT32.

Warning: Be careful with this setting because once you enter this key into the registry you will not be able to use Regedit to undo the change. Consider wisely before using this modification so that you do not lock yourself out of the registry.

Open your registry to: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesSystem. Create a new DWORD value named ‘DisableRegistryTools’ and set the value to ‘1’ to disable registry editing functions. NOTE: This HKEY will disable registry editing for everyone, including yourself. You will need some kind of registry tweak manager to undo it.

If you have different user logons, this can also be enabled on a user-by-user basis by putting the same value in the [HKEY_CURRENT_USER] hive. Then change YOUR logon password in case someone else knows it.

Restart Windows for the change to take effect.

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Please remember that REGEDIT and REGEDT32 are different programs, depending on the version you’re running. Editing Values and Data with REGEDIT can sometimes be a hit-or-miss thing on earlier versions of Windows. Yeah, this is the XP board, but still…hose up that Registry and you’re hurting!

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/141377

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Please remember that REGEDIT and REGEDT32 are different programs, depending on the version you’re running. Editing Values and Data with REGEDIT can sometimes be a hit-or-miss thing on earlier versions of Windows. Yeah, this is the XP board, but still…hose up that Registry and you’re hurting!

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/141377

Note: For XP and newer OSes, redegit32 is just a stub that executes regedit.

Joe

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