Registry Editing has been disabled by your administrator

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If you people have ever encountered an error like this, "Registry editing has been disabled by your administrator" on Windows XP or any other windows NT Operating System. I have encountered the above error many times while patching the registry. Even manual "regedit" command was not working. So, here is simple solution.

Follow these steps to resolve this problem.

1. Go to "Start>Run" or press "Windows Key + R".

2. Type this command exactly as given below(or you can copy and paste it).

REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableRegistryTools /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

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