Registry Fix Software

I’m trying to install the Excel 2010 beta, but it says Office 2003 is corrupt and must be repaired or removed, and won’t install (I have many versions of Excel installed, including 2003).

So I tried to run a repair of Office 2003 from Office 2003 setup, but it says:

Error 1402. Setup cannot open the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\OptionalComponents\MSFS. Verify that you have sufficient permissions to access the registry….

I’ve tried:

– Deleting the key in regedit. It won’t do it. FWIW, it also doesn’t allow making any changes to it such as adding a value, and doesn’t allow deleting its parent key.

– Assigning permissions to the key to myself. It won’t do it.

– Taking ownership of the key. It doesn’t allow it.

– Running "Free Windows Registry Repair 2.0" and doing a full scan. It found lots of things to fix, but it didn’t fix that problem.

– Running PSEXEC from PSTOOLS to run regedit under the System account, and take ownership by the System account. It doesn’t allow it.

– Running RegDelNull.exe and doing both a targeted scan on HKLM, and a full scan. In both cases, it found nothing to fix.

Isn’t there some way to do a brute force delete of a registry key?!? What can I do?

Thanks,

Greg
Looks like it truncated the registry path. Trying again: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\OptionalComponents\MSFS
Okay, here it is in parts:

Part 1:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft

Part 2:
\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Part 3:
\OptionalComponents\MSFS

Log in as administrator. Not to an account that has administrative rights – with the login name "administrator". If your administrator account isn’t enabled, search for enable administrator for your version of Windows.

And if you’re not a beta tester, and you want your computer to keep functioning, stop running beta versions of programs. (The first thing you do what you become a beta tester is set up a beta test computer – that has nothing on it but the programs you’re testing. So that when you blow it up with a runaway program, you can restore the drive from an image without losing anything importanmt. You NEVER beta test on your real computer!)

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