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"Jeff" <Jeff@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:46545b9a@newsgroups.borland.com...

> I've got a system service that needs to access a user's registry
value.

In order to do that, the service must first log in to the user's
account as well as load that user's Registry hive if it ihas not
already been loaded by the OS earlier.

> I've written a function to impersonate the user and then access the
> registry (HKEY_CURRENT_USER), but it always get back a
> false value (see code below).

You did not load the user's Registry hive.  You need to call
RegLoadKey() after impersonating the user.  Have a look at the
following article for more details:

    Why Do Certain Win32 Technologies Misbehave in Windows NT
Services?
    http://www.microsoft.com/msj/0398/service2.aspx

In particular, look at the "Registry Hives" section at the very end of
the article.


Gambit