Registry Editor "Unable to set new owner on [redacted], access is denied"

[Vacho Rehanyan]

Hello, so I'm trying to change the owner on a certain key in the registry. The owner currently is SYSTEM, and I have only read access. I went into Regedit and went into permissions, advanced, change owner, and tried inputting my name, but when I click apply it says it is unable to set new owner, access is denied. I have never seen the registry editor fail to set a new owner. What steps should I take to be able to change the owner? The key is in local machine.



So far I have tried disabling inheritance but that also failed as the regedit gave the same error.



Thanks

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