Giving and removing registry permission to NETWORK SERVICE slowed down windows

Hello,

I have a 2003 server with IIS 6 running an ASP.NET 2.0 web service. I
was getting a "Registry access not allowed" exception on my web
service. It runs under Network Service.

Since even the stack trace was not any helpful, I just went to regedit
and gave network service full permission on all root node to see if it
goes away. After doing this restart IIS failed saying World wide web
publishing failed to start. At this point I removed Network Service
from the permissions on all the root nodes from RegEdit and tried
again. It still did not work.

I restarted the windows (I am doing RDP into this machine) and the
windows is terribly slow. It takes a minute for a right click to come
up. The whole system is running as if it has 1 mb of RAM.

Does anyone see a reason for this to happen? I think the terminal
services at this location might be faulty but I just wanted to confirm
from someone that above changes can not slow down windows. I am ready
to see exceptions but this slow performance is just not making any
sense.

Thanks for your help.

Re: Giving and removing registry permission to NETWORK SERVICE slowed down windows

I fail to see how adding additional permissions to one account would cause
Windows to run slower.

Removing permissions (and progating the changes to all levels) could
obviously cause some problems, as you may have removed access to keys that
Network Service previously had access to.

I would start by looking in the Windows Event Log to see what errors ar
ebeing generating.

Cheers
Ken

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"Pranav" wrote in message
news:1184798638.401780.290030@i13g2000prf.googlegroups.com.. .
> Hello,
>
> I have a 2003 server with IIS 6 running an ASP.NET 2.0 web service. I
> was getting a "Registry access not allowed" exception on my web
> service. It runs under Network Service.
>
> Since even the stack trace was not any helpful, I just went to regedit
> and gave network service full permission on all root node to see if it
> goes away. After doing this restart IIS failed saying World wide web
> publishing failed to start. At this point I removed Network Service
> from the permissions on all the root nodes from RegEdit and tried
> again. It still did not work.
>
> I restarted the windows (I am doing RDP into this machine) and the
> windows is terribly slow. It takes a minute for a right click to come
> up. The whole system is running as if it has 1 mb of RAM.
>
> Does anyone see a reason for this to happen? I think the terminal
> services at this location might be faulty but I just wanted to confirm
> from someone that above changes can not slow down windows. I am ready
> to see exceptions but this slow performance is just not making any
> sense.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>