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New-Item fails on "Policies" hive with access denied

It seems I can't write under policies, but directy I can. I need to alter something in registery under Policies. Is this doable? 

 New-Item -Path "HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System" -Force     
 New-ItemProperty -Path "HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System" -Name DisableAcrylicBackgroundOnLogon -Value "1" -PropertyType DWord -Force

= access denied 

 New-Item -Path "HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\System" -Force     
 New-ItemProperty -Path "HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\System" -Name DisableAcrylicBackgroundOnLogon -Value "1" -PropertyType Dword -Force

= success

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YoungYang-MSFT answered

Hi,

Have you tried to use administrator account to run the command?

It works for me.

If you got the access denied error, I think you are having a permissions issue.

But as Jrv said, It is useless to modify GP registry.

Best regards,

Young Yang

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