Prevent Access to Registry Editing Tools

Prevent Access to Registry Editing Tools

Disables the Windows registry editor Regedit.exe.

If you enable this policy setting and the user tries to start Regedit.exe, a message appears explaining that a policy setting prevents the action.

If you disable this policy setting or do not configure it, users can run Regedit.exe normally.

To prevent users from using other administrative tools, use the “Run only specified Windows applications” policy setting.

Supported on: At least Windows 2000

Disable regedit from running silently?

Yes

Registry Hive HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Registry Path Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
Value Name DisableRegistryTools
Value Type REG_DWORD
Value 2

No

Registry Hive HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Registry Path Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
Value Name DisableRegistryTools
Value Type REG_DWORD
Value 1
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