From: John Beckett 

"Geo"  wrote in message
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> try examining those with regedt32 and regedit without changing the
> permissions on them.

I just did that on a W2000 server. Regedt32 shows Properties greyed out,
and won't display any contents. Regedit shows a "Default" REG_SZ.
However, I believe that the W2000 regedit does that for some weird reason
that I don't understand, but it does NOT mean that there is a value named
"Default".

In regedt32, I added Administrators with Read permission. In regedit, after
doing a couple of refreshes, it shows the following two values that it DID
NOT show prior to the permissions being changed:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1
-08002BE10318}\Properties]
"DeviceType"=dword:00000002
"DeviceCharacteristics"=dword:00000100

Maybe you're thinking of the old trick of running: at hh:mm /interactive regedit.exe

so regedit would be run as System, which allows you to view stuff that
System has access to. You could do the same with regedt32 - I think it is
traditional to use regedit because of its better search.

Everything I saw supports what I said about there being no difference
between regedit and regedt32 re respecting permissions.

John

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