In seeking to edit the x32Win10ProV22H2 registry, at every turn I am prevented by lack of privilege. So I searched in Google and found the following : "To GRANT ALL privileges to a user, allowing that user full control over a specific database, use the following syntax: mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON database_name.* TO 'username'@'localhost'; With that command, we've told MySQL to : GRANT the PRIVILEGES of type ALL (thus everything of course)." Does this apply to Registry ? and if so, I'd like help with substituting for 'username' and 'localhost' as well as WHERE do I type 'mysql etc" ? If it does not apply to registry, how can I get the privilege required to merge an edited registry hive ?