Registry Access

4 May 2010 8:00 PM

Charles A. Lackman

Hello,

I created an App that writes small amounts of data to the registry. This
works in Windows XP with no problem, however, Windows 7 gives the following
error:

"Requested registry access is not allowed".

I am not sure how to work around this.

I am using VS 2005. Code examples would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Chuck

4 May 2010 9:14 PM

Family Tree Mike

On 5/4/2010 4:00 PM, Charles A. Lackman wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> I created an App that writes small amounts of data to the registry. This
> works in Windows XP with no problem, however, Windows 7 gives the following
> error:
>
> "Requested registry access is not allowed".
>
> I am not sure how to work around this.
>
> I am using VS 2005. Code examples would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Chuck
>
>

You should be writing to the HKEY_Current_User portion of the registry
without issue. Even within XP, you could experience issues if you try
writing outside of there. Where are you trying to write?

--
Mike

4 May 2010 10:25 PM

Mr. Arnold

Charles A. Lackman wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I created an App that writes small amounts of data to the registry. This
> works in Windows XP with no problem, however, Windows 7 gives the following
> error:
>
> "Requested registry access is not allowed".
>
> I am not sure how to work around this.
>
> I am using VS 2005. Code examples would be greatly appreciated.
>

Windows Vista and 7 are not XP, and you're not going to be able to do on
Vista or 7 what you can do on XP.

You should look up information using Bing or Google on how to deal with
virtualization.

<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa965884(VS.85).aspx>