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Hi Remy,

I found the problem, the path should have been
Software\\Borland\\C++Builder\\4.0,
not \\Software\\Borland\\C++Builder\\4.0
however, TRegistry of Borland accepts both of them which cause this
confusion, thanks.

Frank

"FrankW" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:3f63ddac@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Hi Remy,
>
> Thanks for the reply and sorry for the wrong news group I posted the
> question, I tried the KEY_READ right, i still get the same error 161:
>
>      LONG lResult;
>     HKEY hKeyResult = 0;
>
>     lResult = RegOpenKeyEx( HKEY_CURRENT_USER,
> PChar("\\Software\\Borland\\C++Builder\\4.0"), 0, KEY_READ , &hKeyResult);
>
>     //lResult is always 161, why?
>
>     if (lResult == ERROR_SUCCESS)
>     {
>     }
>
> regards,
>
> Frank
>
>
>
> "Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <gambit47@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:3f63d9a7@newsgroups.borland.com...
> >
> > Under NT/2K/XP, KEY_ALL_ACCESS requires the calling user to have admin
> > rights.  You should NEVER use KEY_ALL_ACCESS in your own code whenever
you
> > can avoid it.
> >
> > If you are only going to modify a key's contents, you should open the
key
> > with KEY_WRITE rights.  Even better would be if you can design your code
> so
> > that you can specify KEY_CREATE_SUB_KEY and KEY_SET_VALUE separately.
> >
> > If you are only going to read from the key, you should open the key with
> > KEY_READ rights.  Or better, if you can specify KEY_ENUMERATE_SUB_KEYS
and
> > KEY_QUERY_VALUE separately.
>
>