Regedit.exe doesn't open tried to enable it in CMD "Access denied" I click it nothing happens

[PedramCarter]

Tried to enable and disable it in group policy also nothing happened...
I need to access it
This has happened twice now and I reinstalled my windows, and it worked but when I installed these 3 things it stopped opening, AMD graphics card driver, netframe 3.5, directx11 and GTA 5 on windows 8.1 pro.

 

[USAFRet]

If you have a Group Policy that says you cannot run regedit, then someone else (your local admin guy?) must have set that GPO.
Ask whoever set the GPO.

Is this a home PC, or a company PC?

 

[PedramCarter]

If you have a Group Policy that says you cannot run regedit, then someone else (your local admin guy?) must have set that GPO.
Ask whoever set the GPO.

Is this a home PC, or a company PC?

Home PC it literally just worked when I did a clean install but when I did few driver installs and softwares it stopped working again.
I am the admin.

 

[USAFRet]

WIN + S
type regedit
Right click - Run as Administrator

What happens?

 

[PedramCarter]

WIN + S
type regedit
Right click - Run as Administrator

What happens?

I didn't mean to pick as solution please unsolve it please, and it nothing, I even did "show directory" or whatever opens up the folder it's in, nothing happens when you open it, I even deleted it and recreated it using cmd, still nothing.

 

[USAFRet]

WIN + S
type regedit
Right click - Run as Administrator

What happens?

I didn't mean to pick as solution please unsolve it please, and it nothing, I even did "show directory" or whatever opens up the folder it's in, nothing happens when you open it, I even deleted it and recreated it using cmd, still nothing.

Unselected per your request.

 

[PedramCarter]

WIN + S
type regedit
Right click - Run as Administrator

What happens?

I didn't mean to pick as solution please unsolve it please, and it nothing, I even did "show directory" or whatever opens up the folder it's in, nothing happens when you open it, I even deleted it and recreated it using cmd, still nothing.

Unselected per your request.

Thank you but any solution ? it's pissing me the hell of, I tried to enable it through cmd it says "error access denied" and then I even renamed it to regedit.bk and recreated the regedit from scratch using cmd but nothing you are able to open it but nothing happens when you click on the icon.

 

[USAFRet]

WIN + S
type regedit
Right click - Run as Administrator

What happens?

I didn't mean to pick as solution please unsolve it please, and it nothing, I even did "show directory" or whatever opens up the folder it's in, nothing happens when you open it, I even deleted it and recreated it using cmd, still nothing.

Unselected per your request.

Thank you but any solution ? it's pissing me the hell of, I tried to enable it through cmd it says "error access denied" and then I even renamed it to regedit.bk and recreated the regedit from scratch using cmd but nothing you are able to open it but nothing happens when you click on the icon.

You renamed regedit.exe to regedit.bk?
WHY would you do this? Who told you that was a good idea?

Change it back.
Assuming this is Win 8.1:
Hover over the bottom left corner
Select Run
Type regedit
Click OK

What happens?

 

[PedramCarter]

WIN + S
type regedit
Right click - Run as Administrator

What happens?

I didn't mean to pick as solution please unsolve it please, and it nothing, I even did "show directory" or whatever opens up the folder it's in, nothing happens when you open it, I even deleted it and recreated it using cmd, still nothing.

Unselected per your request.

Thank you but any solution ? it's pissing me the hell of, I tried to enable it through cmd it says "error access denied" and then I even renamed it to regedit.bk and recreated the regedit from scratch using cmd but nothing you are able to open it but nothing happens when you click on the icon.

You renamed regedit.exe to regedit.bk?
WHY would you do this? Who told you that was a good idea?

Change it back.
Assuming this is Win 8.1:
Hover over the bottom left corner
Select Run
Type regedit
Click OK

What happens?

I didn't do it on my current window I did it before I reinstalled the whole window from scratch, the reason I did this was because I was watching a youtube tutorial you rename it for backup purposes so when you're recreating the registry if anything happens or goes wrong you have a backup.

 

[USAFRet]

WIN + S
type regedit
Right click - Run as Administrator

What happens?

I didn't mean to pick as solution please unsolve it please, and it nothing, I even did "show directory" or whatever opens up the folder it's in, nothing happens when you open it, I even deleted it and recreated it using cmd, still nothing.

Unselected per your request.

Thank you but any solution ? it's pissing me the hell of, I tried to enable it through cmd it says "error access denied" and then I even renamed it to regedit.bk and recreated the regedit from scratch using cmd but nothing you are able to open it but nothing happens when you click on the icon.

You renamed regedit.exe to regedit.bk?
WHY would you do this? Who told you that was a good idea?

Change it back.
Assuming this is Win 8.1:
Hover over the bottom left corner
Select Run
Type regedit
Click OK

What happens?

I didn't do it on my current window I did it before I reinstalled the whole window from scratch, the reason I did this was because I was watching a youtube tutorial you rename it for backup purposes so when you're recreating the registry if anything happens or goes wrong you have a backup.

holee crap that is all kinds of wrong.
"regedit" is merely the command to open the Registry editor.

Changing regedit.exe to regedit.bk is worse than useless.
Yes, you should make a backup copy of the registry before you do any major changes. You do this by opening the Registry editor, and selecting File|Export. This saves a copy of the Registry as it is right now. It will save as <filename>.reg. Whatever filename you give it.

Now....what happens, specifically, when you try to open the Registry editor?

 

[PedramCarter]

WIN + S
type regedit
Right click - Run as Administrator

What happens?

I didn't mean to pick as solution please unsolve it please, and it nothing, I even did "show directory" or whatever opens up the folder it's in, nothing happens when you open it, I even deleted it and recreated it using cmd, still nothing.

Unselected per your request.

Thank you but any solution ? it's pissing me the hell of, I tried to enable it through cmd it says "error access denied" and then I even renamed it to regedit.bk and recreated the regedit from scratch using cmd but nothing you are able to open it but nothing happens when you click on the icon.

You renamed regedit.exe to regedit.bk?
WHY would you do this? Who told you that was a good idea?

Change it back.
Assuming this is Win 8.1:
Hover over the bottom left corner
Select Run
Type regedit
Click OK

What happens?

I didn't do it on my current window I did it before I reinstalled the whole window from scratch, the reason I did this was because I was watching a youtube tutorial you rename it for backup purposes so when you're recreating the registry if anything happens or goes wrong you have a backup.

holee crap that is all kinds of wrong.
"regedit" is merely the command to open the Registry editor.

Changing regedit.exe to regedit.bk is worse than useless.
Yes, you should make a backup copy of the registry before you do any major changes. You do this by opening the Registry editor, and selecting File|Export. This saves a copy of the Registry as it is right now. It will save as <filename>.reg. Whatever filename you give it.

Now....what happens, specifically, when you try to open the Registry editor?

Loading bar shows for 2 seconds and then nothing.... you can click on it but nothing happens.

 

[PedramCarter]

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.3.9600]
(c) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Windows\system32>reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Poli
cies\System" /t Reg_dword /v DisableRegistryTools /f /d 0
The operation completed successfully.

C:\Windows\system32>

 

[USAFRet]

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.3.9600]
(c) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Windows\system32>reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Poli
cies\System" /t Reg_dword /v DisableRegistryTools /f /d 0
The operation completed successfully.

C:\Windows\system32>

Your above text does not happen when you try to open the Registry editor.
That happens if you run a command to try to disable the registry editor.

What are you actually trying to do?

 

[PedramCarter]

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.3.9600]
(c) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Windows\system32>reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Poli
cies\System" /t Reg_dword /v DisableRegistryTools /f /d 0
The operation completed successfully.

C:\Windows\system32>

Your above text does not happen when you try to open the Registry editor.
That happens if you run a command to try to disable the registry editor.

What are you actually trying to do?

Yeah I pasted that to you to show that it's enabled, I want to open regedit to do this, if theres another way to do it for now until I fix it or find out I'll be happy, I want to do this

How to change the setup language for social club in the registry:
a) Go to "start"
b) Search for "regedit"
c) Navigate to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE"\ "SOFTWARE"\ "Wow6432Node"\ "Rockstar Games"\
d) Highlight "Grand Theft Auto V" & on the right pane double-click "Language"
e) Change "zh-CN" to desired language: English (US) is "en-US".

 

[PedramCarter]

Even * regedt32 wont work wtf :/

<Language please>

 

[Grishnikov]

Holy * the same thing is happening to me. I think its cause of the GTA 5 torrent you downloaded cause i did the same and it doesnt let me open regedit now. I need to change language to english too but cant get it to work. Maybe it has something to do with Anti-Virus?

 

[Grishnikov]

Found a temporary solution, download alternate registry editor and use it to change language for GTA 5. No idea how to solve the regedit problem though.
Heres the download:http://www.torchsoft.com/download/RegistryWorkshop.exe

 

[USAFRet]

Holy * the same thing is happening to me. I think its cause of the GTA 5 torrent you downloaded cause i did the same and it doesnt let me open regedit now. I need to change language to english too but cant get it to work. Maybe it has something to do with Anti-Virus?

No, it is specifically from the torrent you installed.
If you had actually purchased the game, you would not have these issues.

 

[USAFRet]

Found a temporary solution, download alternate registry editor and use it to change language for GTA 5. No idea how to solve the regedit problem though.
Heres the download:http://www.torchsoft.com/download/RegistryWorkshop.exe

Was this a pirated game you installed? If so, the inability to run regedit is probably the least of your worries.

 

[PedramCarter]

Holy * the same thing is happening to me. I think its cause of the GTA 5 torrent you downloaded cause i did the same and it doesnt let me open regedit now. I need to change language to english too but cant get it to work. Maybe it has something to do with Anti-Virus?

 

[PedramCarter]

Found a temporary solution, download alternate registry editor and use it to change language for GTA 5. No idea how to solve the regedit problem though.
Heres the download:http://www.torchsoft.com/download/RegistryWorkshop.exe

Was this a pirated game you installed? If so, the inability to run regedit is probably the least of your worries.

Why does it matter not admitting to anything but I know plenty of friends who have been running pirated games for 10 years or so and had no problems ever.

 

[USAFRet]

Found a temporary solution, download alternate registry editor and use it to change language for GTA 5. No idea how to solve the regedit problem though.
Heres the download:http://www.torchsoft.com/download/RegistryWorkshop.exe

Was this a pirated game you installed? If so, the inability to run regedit is probably the least of your worries.

Why does it matter not admitting to anything but I know plenty of friends who have been running pirated games for 10 years or so and had no problems ever.

Pirated software is a main vector of malware, trojans, and viruses.

PC working perfectly.
Install a pirated game.
Regedit no longer works.

See the connection?

 

[foundreason]

I found this via ProcessMonitor.

To make regedit.exe work you must delete key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\regedit.exe.

So you need to launch CMD as Administrator and paste this

reg delete "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\regedit.exe"

Done, regedit now works

The reason is described here http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2005/12/19/505449.aspx

 

[kristofp12]

HOLY MOTHER OF GOD! It actually works man, put it in, and it will ask (yes/no). type yes, click enter, and it will say completed succesfully, and than type regedit in start, and run it, and it finnally freaking works! thanks so much man, that was such a simple fix...

 

[USAFRet]

does this actually work? I have the same issue, and yes it was the same exact torrent that you guys are talking about, but i bought the game now, and only just noticed regedit wasn't working when i realized i had adware and a website called bizigames would open up on boot.

Whether you bought the game later or not, the initial torrent install hosed up your system/regedit.

I'd suggest a full wipe and reinstall of everything.