If I understand, you change the settings and they work until you reboot,
when they revert to what they were. Something is preventing your change
from actually writing to the Registry.

Did you try it in Safe Mode?

"dekac99" <dekac99@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:73C4FE4E-C8DC-4116-8590-BA113B884D72@microsoft.com...
> The issue is that the settings get changed, not that they cannot be
> changed.
> We do not want the original custom HKLM registry settings on a client PC
> to
> change when an admin logon to the Client PC for the first time. Any ideas?
> Thanks.
>
> "Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM" wrote:
>
>> "dekac99" <dekac99@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:90A8A558-DBB4-455E-A40E-0160BA0AFB42@microsoft.com...
>> > OS: Vista Enterprise/Business
>> > The IE7 Zone Security Settings are set by editing registry values in
>> > HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Int ernet
>> > Settings\Zones\,
>> > and
>> > Security_HKLM_only is set to 1. When a user, who has local admin
>> > rights,
>> > logs
>> > on for the first time the HKLM\..\Zones\ values for the security zone 2
>> > (Trusted Site) and 3 (Internet) get reset to values defined under
>> > HKLM\...\TemplatePolicies. This changes only happen for the first logon
>> > and
>> > when Security_HKLM_only=1. Is there any way to stop this changes from
>> > happening?
>>
>> It might be a security program blocking the Registry change it needs to
>> make. A few, but not all, of the programs now doing this are:
>> Ad-aware's Ad-Watch
>> IBM Access Connections
>> McAfee VirusScan and/or Antispyware
>> Norton AV
>> Spyware Blaster
>> Spybot> Tools> IE Tweaks
>> Spybot- Teatimer
>> Spysweeper
>> Spyware Doctor
>> Windows Defender
>> Zone Alarm (free) 6.5 Reported to be fixed in later versions.
>>
>> In the case of Zone Alarm 6.5 or Norton 2007 it actually has to be
>> uninstalled. Make sure the Windows Firewall is turned on until you
>> reinstall Zone Alarm.
>>
>> Boot into Safe Mode with Networking and try the change.