How to access current user key of other users?

[Klaus Kassner]

I am the "system administrator" of our home computer running XP. There
is a (restricted) account for each member of my family. Sometimes, when
I install a program, it does not correctly work for the other users, and
in at least one case this was due to a registry key being written only
into HKEY...CURRENT_USER of my own account. To make the program
runnable for my daughter I had to export the key from the registry, make
my daughter log on (she does not want me to know her password) and
import it on her account.

My question is now, whether there is any way for me to do things like
copying registry keys into the HKEY...CURRENT_USER of the other users
from my administrator account. When I start regedit I only see my own
current user key, but in order to administer all accounts correctly, I
should be able to work on the registry keys of others as well. Is this
possible without logging on as them?

Thanks for any help.
--
Klaus Kassner
Institut fuer Theoretische Physik / Computerorientierte Theor. Physik
Otto-von-Guericke-Universitaet Magdeburg
Postfach 4120
D-39016 Magdeburg
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[Ramesh [MVP]]

Klaus,

One of the coolest tip from Doug Knox:

Advanced Registry Editing:
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_adv_reg_editing.htm

--
Ramesh - Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k


I am the "system administrator" of our home computer running XP. There
is a (restricted) account for each member of my family. Sometimes, when
I install a program, it does not correctly work for the other users, and
in at least one case this was due to a registry key being written only
into HKEY...CURRENT_USER of my own account. To make the program
runnable for my daughter I had to export the key from the registry, make
my daughter log on (she does not want me to know her password) and
import it on her account.

My question is now, whether there is any way for me to do things like
copying registry keys into the HKEY...CURRENT_USER of the other users
from my administrator account. When I start regedit I only see my own
current user key, but in order to administer all accounts correctly, I
should be able to work on the registry keys of others as well. Is this
possible without logging on as them?

Thanks for any help.
--
Klaus Kassner
Institut fuer Theoretische Physik / Computerorientierte Theor. Physik
Otto-von-Guericke-Universitaet Magdeburg
Postfach 4120
D-39016 Magdeburg
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