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Mark Jacobs schreef:
> I have an application that cannot write to the registry unless I set its 
> properties, compatibility to run as admin. After doing this, each time 
> the PC is restarted, and the app is set launch at boot up, but I get a 
> UAC message asking me if I'm sure I want to allow my app to run with 
> admin privileges. Is there any way programmatically to avoid this prompt 
> each time? Is there a better way of ensuring an app can write to the 
> registry under Vista? TIA,

You would probably have this problem to on windows 2000 with standard users.

Yes use registry keys to which you do have write access as a normal 
user. The keys under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE are generally readonly for users 
so store as much as possible under HKEY_CURRENT_USER instead.

If you must have write access to keys under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE it is 
possible to create keys with different security settings. But I never 
tried it myself as using HKEY_CURRENT_USER has aalways been sufficient 
for me. Ofcourse these keys should be created when running as 
administrator so it might be a good idea to create them during installation.

Eelke