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Old December 5th, 2006, 12:41 PM
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Problem reading from registry when in limited account.

I have a program that depends on reading certain registry keys inorder to do it's job. It doesn't have to change or alter the keys, just read them. The problem I am having is that when the program is run under a limited user account, which 90% of the time it will be, the program generates a SecurityException error. I know it's a result of the program trying to read the registry under a limited user account. Is there a way to programatticaly give the program read access to certain registry keys? If it makes any difference, the keys are not created by the system, but rather by a second program I created that is only run under an account with Admin privlidges. The program I am having trouble with also runs right after the user logs in.

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No, this a machine security issue and the software can't overwrite that. The only way around this would be to run the application under an account that can read the registry.

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As a computer administrator you can adjust security settings on selected registry keys using regedit.
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