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"Regis St-Gelais" <regis.st-gelais@NOSPAMlaubrass.com> wrote in message
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> Is there a registry area that is always accessible (read and write)
> no mather the security settings?
> Or at least to a low preveleadged user.

Low-privilege users only have access to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER and
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT area.  Unless you are registering new class types,
interfaces, file extensions, etc, you should not store application data in
the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT area.  If you need to store data regardless of
permissions, you might consider using files instead of the Registry.  There
are areas in the file system that are set asside for applications to read
from and write to, even for low-privilege users.

What exactly are you trying to accomplish?


Gambit

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Remy Lebeau (TeamB)
Newsgroups: borland.public.cppbuilder.nativeapi
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 5:02 PM
Subject: Re: Low preveleagde Registry key
>
> Low-privilege users only have access to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER and
> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT area.  Unless you are registering new class types,
> interfaces, file extensions, etc, you should not store application data in
> the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT area.  If you need to store data regardless of
> permissions, you might consider using files instead of the Registry.
> There
> are areas in the file system that are set asside for applications to read
> from and write to, even for low-privilege users.
>
> What exactly are you trying to accomplish?
>

Thanks Gambit,

Actualy I need both.
I need to store a small amount of information in the registry (I will use
the HKEY_CURRENT_USER area for that)

I also need to store some configuration files (in XML).
I need a place that is common to all users and also a place that is specific
to each user.
I suspect it will be in the Documents and Settings folder.

P.S.: Remy Labeau sound French to me. Are you speaking French?

Regis St-Gelais
www.laubrass.com

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"Regis St-Gelais" <regis.st-gelais@NOSPAMlaubrass.com> wrote in message
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> I also need to store some configuration files (in XML).
> I need a place that is common to all users and also a place
> that is specific to each user.

You need to use SHGetSpecialFolderLocation() for that:


http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/reference/functions/shgetspecialfolderlocation.asp

For all users, use CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA.  For just the current user, you can
use CSIDL_APPDATA or CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA.

> P.S.: Remy Labeau sound French to me. Are you speaking French?

No.


Gambit