Windows 10: I am in a difficult situation and need guidance regarding taking ownership of registry...

We are moving from Cylance to Carbon Black where I work and I am tasked with removing Cylance and installing Carbon. The problem is Cylance is DREADFUL to remove. I do not want to touch all 200+ of our workstations, but would rather script this and do it all remotely. This will involve taking ownership of registry keys and folders. It appears that I am only able to take ownership under the currently logged-in user's account. This is not good. How can I possibly take ownership with an admin account of a registry key or a file or folder remotely via script, with no user logged in to the wo

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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.

 

Take Ownership and Delete Registry Key

Sarah,

Thanks for the reply and thanks for suggestions. However, you haven't answered the question asked :-(. The issue that I am having with my computer is "Ownership." I am the administrator and supposedly the owner but Windows thinks that it is :-(.

It has taken days to set up the PC like I want it to look and feel. I certainly don't want to create another local administrator account and go through that ringer again.

At this point, the Warning and Event ID 1534 is a point of principle. I don't want to ignore it. I want to fix it. According to information posted and confirmed by several others, the way to do this is to take ownership and delete two registry keys.
If the whole computer blows up as a result that is fine.

How do I "Take ownership" of this TLD key and delete it?

 

Take Ownership

Hello,

Thank you for posting your concern here in Microsoft Community and welcome to the Windows 10 Family.

From the description of the issue, I understand that you are unable to take full ownership of the files and folders.

I would recommend you to see if you are logged in administrator account, if not then enable it. Please follow the below steps.

I would suggest you to enable the built in administrator account.

You need to run the command from an elevated command prompt. To do that you need to do the following:

• Press the Windows key t+ R from the keyboard to open the Run Command Dialog Box
• Enter cmd and right-click on the Command Prompt result that should appear.
  
• This opens a list of options at the bottom. Select Run as administrator there.
  
• Accept the UAC prompt
• Enter the following command to enable the hidden administrator account:
  net user administrator /active:yes

Hope the above information was helpful. If you need further assistance, please do let us know and we would be happy to help you further.

Thank You.