How to enable and disable the registry editor

My registry editor was disabled somehow. May be a virus. If you too got the same problem then try this out!

Enable and disable Registry editor

  1. Open RegEdit  by Clicking on Start >> Run, type Regedit and press OK
  2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\ CurrentVersion\ Policies\System
  3. Create a DWORD value with the name DisableRegistryTools.
  4. To disable Registry Editor set its value to 1,
    enable Registry Editor set the value to 0.