Right-Click, Registry Access Denied (Final Solution)

I had an odd issue with my Windows Vista. Every time I do right-click on a file or folder, an error message would pop-up saying “Registry Access Denied“, after acknowledging the message, the context menu would appear and function normally.


I did numerous searches, examined permissions, removed/added the user from groups, nothing worked. Then it hit me, it was the context menu that was having an issue, perhaps I should take a look at all the items that are listed in the registry to see how they matched the right-click menu after it appeared.


Doing yet another search, Online Tech Tips had info on editing the right-click menu. Following the registry path mentioned: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\ I was able to see that there was an entry for a zip program that wasn’t appearing on the context menu. After backing up the registry, I removed that entry and viola, no more error. Simpler than I thought…


zipx was exactly my problem! I uninstalled this and now I don’t get that annoying message anymore.

Comments

Anonymous said…
Brilliant Post, sorted my problem out. I just uninstalled ZIPx as I figure it cant be written very well to cause this issue for multiple people.

Thank!
Anonymous said…
Thank you sir!
zipx it was :-)
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Anonymous said…
thanks
Unknown said…
Ditto, same problem, same solution. Thanks
Unknown said…
PS...I had to search for days before I found this simple solution. Someone needs to send a warning out to all XP users NOT to install zipx.
Anonymous said…
Same here... Only installed ZipX because i got a file from a relative in that format. It still wouldn't uncompress it though!!! Uninstalled and no more error!!!
Unknown said…
thank u so much great troubleshoot
Anonymous said…
Thank you, this saved me a ton of work :)
Anonymous said…
Thanks. I knew it had to be one of the programs I recently installed, it just didn't occur to me that it could be zipx. marvelous help!
Anonymous said…
Thank you! this blog should be read by everyone after installing Zipx
Anonymous said…
thank you soooo much
Unknown said…
Thankyou so much YOU ARE GENIUS...! and it is so great of you to post the solution...! It made many of users like me
Anonymous said…
thank you! that was such an annoyance!
Anonymous said…
Excellent fix, this small issue was driving me mad, well done.

Many thanks
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AMAZING, excellent job, great search. Thanks a bunch
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Excellent job, great search and it helped me a lot with a very difficult client.
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