Take ownership of Registry key using vb2005

[YXQ]

Hello,
I need to programmatically take ownership of a registry-key as
current user using VB2005. To test this , i created a key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\TestKey and removed all accessrights from this
key using RegEdt32.

Now i tried to set the accessrights by my programm. Since i do not have
rights to this key, i cannot open the key to get a handle for modifying the
rights.

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...4340f5c2930/667d20dc77f98e8f#667d20dc77f98e8f



I use the code below to take ownership, but it will not work.
Could anyone tell how to modify it? Thank you very much.

////////////////////////////////////////////////
Dim user As Security.Principal.NTAccount = New
Security.Principal.NTAccount(Environment.UserDomainName & "\" &
Environment.UserName)
Dim subKey As String = "test"
Dim rk As RegistryKey = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(subKey,
RegistryKeyPermissionCheck.ReadSubTree,
Security.AccessControl.RegistryRights.TakeOwnership)
Dim rs As Security.AccessControl.RegistrySecurity =
rk.GetAccessControl()
rs.SetOwner(user)
MessageBox.Show("done")

 

[Larry Linson]

why in the **** would you use the registry?

IS UNNECESSARY COMPLEXITY _SEXY_ OR SOMETHING

 

[RobinS]

Ignore LarryLinson; he's just trolling.

Robin S.

 

[Larry Linson]

it is true.

99% of developers should -NEVER- touch the registry

 

[Andrew]

Thank you so much for your opinion.

Let's say we are in that 1% and do need to do this... How can we change ownership if we can't get a writeable handle to the key

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