I had a problem yesterday where I got a virus in my Desktop PC (running Windows XP). It disabled the Registry Editor Tool (regedit.exe) to stop the user (that’s me) from going and manually editing/deleting registry entry.

This useful command helped me enable Registry Editor. Just click on Start -> Run and then type the following in (all as one line):

REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableRegistryTools /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

Hope this is useful to someone too 😉