Re: RegWrite fails on Vista?

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Raymond Bennett wrote:

I have some code that calls WScript.Shell.RegWrite. In Windows Server 2003,
this worked, however in Vista, running as elevated command prompt, it is
reporting an error. The weird part is that _it actually does the registry
write_. I can't simply ignore the error because I need to know if I need
to
stop the script and report an error to the user. Anybody else seen this
problem?

Things are very different in Vista. When I write to HKLM, it seems to work
(I can read them from HKLM), but the values actually are written to a
VirtualStore key in HKCU, so they are not available to other users. I have
not yet found a solution. I am not getting any error messages.

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Richard Mueller
Microsoft MVP Scripting and ADSI
Hilltop Lab - http://www.rlmueller.net
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