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Purpose

Many times Systems Administrators (admins) find themselves needing to remotely stop the Remote Registry service on remote workstations and set those services to disabled.

Assumptions

1) You have appropriate rights/privileges to modify/administer the remote workstation

Stop and Set to Disabled the Remote Registry Service


To stop the remote registry service and set it to the disabled state, from the Windows 7 command prompt, type:

sc \\remote-computer stop RemoteRegistry

sc \\remote-computer config RemoteRegistry start= disabled

Where "remote-computer" is the name of the remote Windows 7 workstation for which you need to stop and disable the Remote Registry Service.

Verify that the Remote Registry Service is Stopped


From the Windows 7 command prompt, type:

sc \\remote-computer query RemoteRegistry

Where remote-computer is the name of the computer on which you just stopped/disabled the Remote Registry service.

The desired service state is shown in the following image:




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