my computer is telling me that the registry editing has been disabled by administrator for windows xp home edition my computer had viruses and that is what caused it how do i fix it

my computer is telling me that the registry editing has been disabled by administrator for windows xp home edition my computer had viruses and that is what caused it how do i fix it This is the Vista forum. However, I will attempt to help with the issue: 1. Are you completely free from infection? If not run your ‘anti’ programs first. 2. To enable regedit, log on to a different user account, click the Windows Orb (Start), type regedit, press Enter and search (F3) for the key DisableRegedit. If it is set to 1 (one), change it to 0 (zero), close the registry editor and restart the computer. Create a system restore point or back up the registry before making any registry changes. Good luck.