How to take ownership & full control of Registry keys in Windows 11/10

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Windows operating organisation will non permit y'all to make changes in sure system critical registry keys. However, if you lot want to make changes even in such registry keys, you volition have to have total command of these keys before Windows allows y'all to make or salvage the changes. We have seen how to accept ownership or files & folders in Windows, now let united states of america run across how to accept buying of Registry keys.

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Accept ownership & full command of Registry keys

Before y'all open the Registry Editor equally admin, first backup your Windows registry and create a organisation restore point.

Next, navigate to the registry key where you want to make the change.

If you try to make changes to such system critical registry keys, y'all volition get the post-obit mistake:

Error Creating Key, Cannot create key, Yous exercise not accept the requisite permission to create a new primal

Close this error dialog box and right-click on the Registry key where you lot want to make the changes and click on Permissions.

In the Permissions box, under its sole security tab, highlight your ain Administrators account and then check the box under Total Control – Allow.

Click Apply > OK.

If it still doesn't work and yous get the following security warning – Unable to save permission changes, exercise the following.

Open the Permissions windows again and click on Advanced button instead, and click on the Owner tab.

Do yous meet another owner like say, TrustedInstaller? If so, alter the possessor to your Name.

Click Apply > OK.

At present again in the Permissions box, under its sole security tab, highlight your ain Administrators business relationship and then check the box under Full Command – Allow. Click Apply > OK.

It should work.

It is always a good practice reversing the changes back to their default settings, once you have made the necessary changes.

Anand Khanse is the Admin of TheWindowsClub.com, a 10-year Microsoft MVP (2006-xvi) & a Windows Insider MVP. Delight read the entire postal service & the comments first, create a System Restore Point before making any changes to your arrangement & exist careful near whatsoever 3rd-political party offers while installing freeware.