The full horror became apparent when we tried to use Last Known Good to revert to the previous setting. AutoAdminLogon had overwritten the old control set. On Windows 7 the keyboard and mouse driver is configured differently, consequently it no longer supports the above registry settings.
No doubt Psycho will find a new way of breaking your machine, and it is quite likely that remote registry editing will be the only way to recover from his stupidity. When you launch this tool it analyzes a users effective NTFS permissions for a specific file or folder, and takes into account network share access, then displays the results in a nifty desktop dashboard! There is a rumour that Remote Desktop requires the Remote Registry service, but on my machine I was able open a session with an XP Remote desktop, even though Remote Registry was disabled on the target machine.
Do email me if you can shed any light on this rumour, or indeed you know of other services that require Remote Registry. Practice enabling Windows 7 Remote Registry; prepare for that day when you are going to need access to the registry of a sickly machine on your network.
For that scenario, I have instruction on how use PowerShell to restart the Remote Registry on another network machine. Alternatively, you can double click the service and check the settings, see screenshot below.
The first requirement is easy to fulfill. The second requirement can be fixed using the command prompt. To open an administrator command prompt, click on Start , type cmd and right-click on cmd and choose Run as Administrator. You will get this message on Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows Note that you have to run this command on both machines. For the third requirement, you need to click on Start , type in services and then click on just Services with the two gear icons.
Scroll down till you see Remote Registry and it should not be running by default. On Windows 7, you can just right-click on it and choose Start. In the properties dialog, you need to change the Startup type to something other than Disabled.
If you need to do this only one time, change it to Manual. These settings are changeable when in the Waiting To Connect mode or when in the connected mode from the Settings button. Warning If Group Policy is used to manage Remote Assistance settings and any configured policy settings overlap these registry settings, the policy settings prevail. Remote Assistance has been enhanced in Windows 7 and Windows Vista to provide better performance, improved usability, NAT-traversal flexibility, and increased security.
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