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How to prevent writing to a specific registry key?
So changing registry strings is a pretty common tool around here and something ive done pretty comfortably for a long time.
Messing with registry permissions goes above my head and is quite a bit more risky. AFAIK with my limited knowledge ACL's and the like is quite a bit more risky.
I'd like to make this change as limited in scope as possible, and entirely reversible. Automatable via script if possible would be even better.
Dropbox. The bane of my existence as far as overlays go. Due to windows longstanding limit for overlay icons and its poor means of prioritization, i've had to go into the registry to manage them. 90% of the time this is due to dropbox updating and leapfrogging everything.
This fact in and of itself keeps me from enrolling in the dropbox beta builds as that would mean needing to self-modify even MORE frequently.
So in short, how can I remove write permissions toHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers
and then un-do it when/if the need arises?