Topic: Change the permission of a Registry Key

[rajat_mallick]

Hi !

I want to change the permission (Full control / Read / Special permissions) of a registry key in "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\..." by using Visual LISP. But how ??

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Kerry]

If you change it manually with regedit.exe, what values do you change/add ?

[rajat_mallick]

Normally, in the restricted / Limited type user account, you cannot change a registry key's value which is located in "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\...".

To do this, you have to change the permission of that key manually from the administrative type user account.

in the registry editor, Select a key and right click -> "permissions..." -> "select group or user name" and then allow permissions like Full control, Read or special permissions (in windows XP os).

But I want to do this by using Visual Lisp.

I have found some help on msdn but couldn't able to incorporate in Visual Lisp.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemsecuritypermissionsregistrypermissionaccessclasstopic.asp

Thanks
-Rajat