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Hello Sir,
I have been using windows server in my personal system and oracle apps has been installed in that system.
Whenever i run "regedit" in start menu it shows an error "registry editing has been disabled by adminstrator" and system autometically restarts.
How tosolve this problem. I dnt have any network.
Thanks
Aditya

It looks like someone, probably your local policy or spyware, has blocked run of registry editor by enabling the Prevent access to registry editing tools policy. When enabled it sets enables the DisableRegistryTools REG_DWORD parameter in HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\ with value of 1.
Check this with your group policy editor by running gpedit.msc and navigating to User Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\ folder. Find the Prevent access to registry editing tools policy there and set it to disable.
Make sure Run only allowed Windows applications policy located in the same folder is not enabled. If so this will prevent you from running any programs not specified in the list.

Because this is just a registry key you can also use scripts like this one script taken from this site

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'Enable Registry Editing'
'© Veegertx - 4/7/2004
'This code may be freely distributed/modified
On Error Resume Next
'Prevents errors from values that don't exist
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
'Delete DisableRegistryTools registry values

WshShell.RegDelete "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\DisableRegistryTools"
WshShell.RegDelete "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\DisableRegistryTools"

'display message
Message = "You should have access to Regedit now"

X = MsgBox(Message, vbOKOnly, "Done")
Set WshShell = Nothing
Set fso = Nothing

or this one by Doug Knox to unlock registry editor by disabling the shown parameter.

But I recommend you to manage this via GPOE because it's safe and you would always see what happens. Notice if you are in the domain and domain policy or the policy of that OU your group or account resides in has this policy enabled, it would be re-enabled next time when you will get refreshed policy from the domain controller. That's because domain policy takes precedence over local policy and OU policy in its turn takes precedence over domain policy.