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Colin B Maharaj <noreply@myhost.com> wrote:

>For all user settings, use HKEY_USERS (your hKey)
>then.....
>".DEFAULT\\Software\\Your Company\\Your Software Title\\" (your SubKey)
>as the starting point for your settings.....
>
>It will work in Win2k (all), WinXp Pro, Win2003 Server(s), Win Vista (all).
>
>I have software that works on all these platforms without any
>tricky coding and all work perfectly - same code base same EXE.

Unfortunately, attempting to create a new key under
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software just fails with an error for me.

(That the HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT appears to be the place where the Local
System account stores stuff (and nothing to do with default users at
all) probably doesn't help.)

The *only* keys on this machine that I have write access to are
HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-796845957-117609710-839522115-1003 and
HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-796845957-117609710-839522115-1003_Classes, which I
am under the impression is specific to this user SID.

So I think I don't understand your solution. Remember, the objective is
to provide a place where all users can both read and write values.

My personal inclination would be to create a key during installation as
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\MyCompany\MySoftware\SharedSettings, and set
that key to be accessible to all. That'd require elevated permissions
during install, but I need that anyway.

Alan Bellingham
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