Unable to access a particular registry key

Unable to access a particular registry key I am trying to install a hot fix for Visual Studio 2008, but each time the install fails, and the report in the log file is that the installer does not have access to:
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"Fixed!!!

For anyone with the same problem in the future:

I went to http://www.heysoft.de/old/RegDACLe.htm and downloaded RegDACL.

I then ran the following command:

regdacl HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\.map\OpenWithProgids /gga:F /ggu:R

This gave full permissions to both administrators and users. I needn't have bothered with the users one, but hey ho."

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