xp_regread() returen error 5 ‘Access is denied’

Posted on September 26, 2011 by chanmingman

This happen when you want to set the security to both Windows and SQL login.

The error message does not reflect the actual issue. One possible problem is 32 bit database engine with 64 bit Management Studio.

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