Accessing the registry with Win32::TieRegistry on XP as stduser not working

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Accessing the registry with Win32::TieRegistry on XP as stduser not working
	2006-04-19 22:35:04
Whoops ... forgot the "$" on "Registry". Bill From: perl-win32-admin-bounceslistserv.ActiveState.com [mailto:perl-win32-admin-bounceslistserv.ActiveState.com] On Behalf Of Ng, Bill Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 5:51 PM To: Castle, Eric; perl-win32-adminlistserv.ActiveState.com Subject: RE: Accessing the registry with Win32::TieRegistry on XP as stduser not working Yeah,       It's a permission thing with the registry ... I ran across it a few months back and posted to this list. ; In the end I found the fix myself.  Try this code instead:   ----------------- my $reg_key = Registry->Open("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\ActiveState\\", {Access=>1}); or $error = "ERROR: Can't access registry key because, $^E\n"; print "error was \"$error\"\n"; -----------------       Specifying the Access level is the key. ; By the way Access=>;1 only gives you read access to that key.   Bill From: perl-win32-admin-bounceslistserv.ActiveState.com [mailto:perl-win32-admin-bounceslistserv.ActiveState.com] On Behalf Of Castle, Eric Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 5:02 PM To: perl-win32-adminlistserv.ActiveState.com Subject: Accessing the registry with Win32::TieRegistry on XP as std user not working Hi,   In preparation for the Vista OS release, I am testing out how our perl scripts work when running as a standard user on Windows XP SP2. This user has no power user or admin permissions.   So far when I try to access the registry ( using Win32::TieRegistry) I get an error - the same error that I would get if the registry key did not exist. I tried using perl 5.6.1 and 5.8 and it behaves the same in both. ; If running the same script as a user with power user or admin priveldges, the scripts work fine and have no problems accessing the registry.   Other (non-perl) applications running as std user are able to access the registry just fine (don't know if they can alter it but they can at least read it).    The registry key I was accessing was HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ActiveState\    The error message I get back in $^E is:  "The system could not find the environment option that was entered".   Here is a sample script I used to test out the problem:   use Win32::TieRegistry;   my $error = ""; my $reg_key = $Registry->{"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\ActiveState\\"} or $error = "ERROR: Can't access registry key because, $^E\n"; print "error was \"$error\"\n";   Has anyone else run into this? ; I'm gonna do a search through MSDN also and see this has come up.   Thanks, Eric