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Re: Registry Editing & Security

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From: Bob Gonder
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 04:20
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John wrote:

>I need to read and write information in the registry that will be accessible
>by all users of the target system.

Does it _really_ need to be the registry?
Why not an ini file (or other data file) in the same directory as the
executable?  Access to/by/for all.

>What I would really like access to is HKLM so that it is exactly the same
>path for all users of the system.  Is there a different root key I am
>missing that is accessible by all users, regardless of permissions?
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From: Bob Gonder <notbg@notmindspring.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Registry Editing & Security
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 20:20:02 -0800
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