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

[Ng, Bill]

That was my original post ...   Bill in Brooklyn From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy Johnson Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 6:01 PM To: Timothy Johnson; Castle, Eric; perl-win32-admin@listserv.ActiveState.com Subject: RE: Accessing the registry with Win32::TieRegistry on XP as stduser not working   I found this on Google:  http://www.mail-archive.com/perl-win32-users@listserv.activestate.com/msg34839.html       From: Timothy Johnson Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 2:53 PM To: 'Castle, Eric'; perl-win32-admin@listserv.ActiveState.com Subject: RE: Accessing the registry with Win32::TieRegistry on XP as std user not working   Have you tried using the Open function instead of $Registry?  I suspect that $Registry may be using remote registry semantics to access the registry, and that may be why regular users wouldn’t have access.  Maybe if you use the Open function to open the key directly you might be able to access it “locally”.   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Castle, Eric Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 2:02 PM To: perl-win32-admin@listserv.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

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