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

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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.

 

Windows Registry Key

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion

The keys that matter are ProductName, CurrentVersion, CurrentBuildNumber and CSDVersion. CSDVersion means info about Service Pack.

 

Take Ownership and Delete Registry Key

I have a brand new PC with a brand new clean install of Windows 10 with most current build.

Despite this, I am continually seeing a Warning Event ID 1534:

Profile notification of event Load for component {B31118B2-1F49-48E5-B6F5-BC21CAEC56FB} failed, error code is See Tracelogging for error details.

If the Events Viewer. Perhaps this is an inconsequential Warning and can be ignored, but the supposed process for resolving it has triggered the fundamental question. How to take ownership of a registry key?

If found on line with several people confirming the fix that the process is (or should be) simple:

Open the registry, navigate to, export, delete the following two keys then reboot:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\ProfileNotification\TDL

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\ProfileNotification\TDL

Unfortunately there is a caveat: "You'll need to take ownership of the TDL key to be able to delete it."

Well despite following to the letter no less than 3 articles for "Taking ownership of a registry" key, after following those steps and clicking "Apply" I keep getting a Windows Security popup:

Unable to save permission changes on TDL. Access is denied.

It is almost infuriating. I'm, I can take a sledge hammer to this PC and smash it to pieces, but Windows wants to tell me that as both the owner and administrator, that I can't have access to and delete a file.

It must be possible, as several people have apparently done it and resolved this warning.

Appreciate any guidance a more experienced person may provide.