Re: Suggestion for FAQ update

On 22 August 2012 22:32, Patrick Hartman <Patrick.Hartman_at_newbalance.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have spent the last day fighting with getting context menu’s to work with
> Windows 7 x64. When trying to update the registry key in the steps that the
> FAQ outlines (http://tortoisesvn.net/faq.html#nomenus), I never able to have
> permission to add myself. Tried logging in as my user, giving my user
> administrator access, logging in as domain administrator and logging in as
> computer administrator – all gave the error that I had insufficient
> privileges to add myself with allow all access on that key.
>
> The workaround to finally allow me to fix that key and fix the context menus
> where to download Sysinternals PsTools
> (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896649) and launch
> regedit with the following command:
>
> PsExec.exe -i -d -s c:\windows\regedit.exe
>
> This gives you full permissions in the registry to allow you to fix
> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/*/shellex/ContextMenuHandlers/TortoiseSVN. Might not hurt
> to add that to the FAQ in case others experience the same challenge.

Thanks for the tip. I'll add that to the FAQ.

Simon

-- 
:       ___
:  oo  // \\      "De Chelonian Mobile"
: (_,\/ \_/ \     TortoiseSVN
:   \ \_/_\_/>    The coolest Interface to (Sub)Version Control
:   /_/   \_\     http://tortoisesvn.net
------------------------------------------------------
http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4061&dsMessageId=3000372
To unsubscribe from this discussion, e-mail: [users-unsubscribe_at_tortoisesvn.tigris.org].