Re: How to configure daylight saving time for the United States in

MPaquette wrote:
That is correct. In my initial post I mentioned that I followed the instructions for Method 1 in this article: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];914387 but when I reboot my test PC I get a pop-up saying "Not all data was successfully written to the registry. Some keys are open by the system or other processes." Method1 walks you through exporting registry keys, creating a startup script, etc. It doesn't work.

"Kurt" wrote:

MPaquette wrote:
Like I said in my original post, this doesn't work. An error message appears saying ""Not all data was successfully written to the registry. Some keys are open by the system or other processes."

"Florian Frommherz" wrote:

Howdie!

MPaquette wrote:
I already tried creating a *.reg file but a normal user cannot update those specific registry keys. How are people going to visit hundreds of machines where normal users don't have local administrator access? What a nightmare.
You don't have to.
Log on as Administrator. Look for the registry key and create a *.reg-file for it.
Go create a Group Policy startup script (under CompConf\...) which will run under the SYSTEM-account and have sufficient rights to make the changes at the registry.
Deploy the registry key within a script via regedit /s whatever.reg

cheers,

Florian
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You didn't say in your original post that you deployed it by running a startup script. The error message is generic, as it says, some keys MAY be open. It also may just mean you don't have permissions. Since the startup script runs with the necessary rights to write to the registry, that should solve the permissions issue without having to make all of your users administrators. Most registry keys are not left "open" for an entire session, but are opened just long enough to read or write a value. Are you now saying that you have tried this by running a .reg file from a startup script?

....kurt

Then the next question is if you run the .reg when logged on as a administrator does it work? Perhaps the key(s) in question are open during the time that the startup script runs. (Not that that's a solution, just trying to narrow down the root of the problem).

....kurt
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