Windows 10: How do I take ownership of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows...

How do I take ownership of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows NT/CurrentVersion/Perflib?

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How do I take ownership of the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows NT/CurrentVersion/Perflib?

How do I take ownership of the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows NT/CurrentVersion/Perflib?

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much.

 

Absent HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows


Windows 10 Home, installed as a free update over Windows 7.

When I open the registry,
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search
is not present.

All that exists is
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\COMMS\
and
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\DM\

What do I need to do to regain
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search ?

 

What is "Program" in taskmanager

Look for it in the usual places:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce

It will be in one (or more) of those locations. Or you can just run msconfig, switch to the Startup tab and find it in that list. It should tell you which of the above it is in and what it is running.