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September 07, 2008  
Subject: Vista, Virtualization & Virtual Store
Group: microsoft.public.windows.developer.winfx.sdk
Date: 7/14/2006 12:49:46 AM
From: "Eddie" [Email Address Protection]

Hi

As I understand it, Microsoft has introduced 'virtualization' into
Vista to prevent users from writing data to 'sensitive' (i.e. HKLM)
parts of the registry. Instead they want developers to ensure that they
write to 'safe' locations (i.e. HKCU). My problem is this; our
application shares a number of global settings with all other system
users. So for example, on WinXP if 'user a' makes a change to our
application, all other users will see the same change when they login.
With Windows Vista, when 'user a' makes a change, it gets stored in
the 'virtual store' and none of the other user get to see it. Is
there anyway to work around this?

Thanks
Eddie.


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