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

[Kent Q. <ken...@co...>]

We had a similar problem.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE was originally intended to be the place you put all
the data that was common to all users (such as where to find your app,
etc). Our original install did that, and then put user-specific data in
HKCU. 

But under NT-related OS's, HKLM is inaccessible to anyone other than the
admin user. So we ended up just eating it and putting everything under
HKCU, and if more than one user wants to run the game on the same
machine, they both have to install it (though I guess they could install
it in the same place).

Brian Hook wrote:
> 
> > 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?

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