Re: HKLM and HKCU Priority

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HKCU is for user DSN definition while HKLM is for system DSN definition.

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"David Burkinshaw" wrote:
|I have a question regarding which hive has priority. We write software and
| our prior version wrote keys to HKLM\Software\ODBC\..... but our new
version
| has to write to HKCU\Software\ODBC\....
| I noticed on one PC (Server 2003) that the HKLM key value was used but on
| another (XP SP2) machine the HKCU key value was used. One of our policies
is
| to never remove old keys from the registry (which i think is wrong) but I
| can't have different PCs using the wrong key. The reason why the keys are
| now in HKCU is because each user has to have their own ODBC entry to point
| to their own data folder in C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application
| Data\<company>\<product>\data
| If this doesn't happen then each user could potentially see other users'
| data because the data would all be stored in a common folder. They could
| also step on each other's data since this is going to be run in a Citrix
| style environment. Also, each user is a non-admin so they wouldn't have
| Write rights to HKLM so they need to have their keys written to HKCU.
| Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
|
| Thanks in advance,
|
| David
|
|


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