disable registry editor
Disable The Registry Editor
You have, more than likely, heard the warning not to play in the Windows registry if you are not familiar with what you are doing. Even the smallest change can, in fact, wreak havoc on your computer. With this in mind, if your computer is shared between multiple users, you may want prevent other users from opening the registry editor when they are logged in. To disable the registry editor for another user: Click Start, click Run, and type regedit. Press Enter. Create the following registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System. Within the key, create a new REG_DWORD data type called DisableRegistryTools. Double click the new data type. Use a value of 1 to disable the registry editor. You can also disable the registry editor for all users that log onto the computer by changing the value for DisableRegistryTools under the following registry key to 1: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Poli