RE: [GD-Windows] Security/access when writing to registry

[Brian S. <bs...@mi...>]

I'm certainly not a NT security expert, but in this particular instance
you only have access to HKLM if you have admin privileges (since you can
essentially screw up the whole machine from there).  Similarly, I don't
think non-admins can install DLLs to the system directory.  It's
probably more correct to say that admin privileges imply the ability to
write to HKLM, and non-admins might have that particular privilege
enabled, but that's way too much detail.  The important point is that
HKCU should always be accessible. =20

I don't have any links to point you to, but I'm sure you could search
MSDN or Google for something like "porting from 95 to Win2k" to get a
list of other gotchas.

--brian

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Hook [mailto:bri...@py...]=20
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 10:25 AM
To: gam...@li...
Subject: RE: [GD-Windows] Security/access when writing to registry

> Write to HKEY_CURRENT_USER instead of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.

Can you elaborate on this a bit more (or point me somewhere that does)?
Do you mean simply replace my HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE places directly with
HKEY_CURRENT_USER?

Brian


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