User rights for Registry

[RF]

Hi,

I have an app that I need to set some values in the CurrentUser and
LocalMachine of the Registry. If the user has administrator previledges, no
problems occur. However, if the user if of type "limited" or
non-administrator, I receive an exception when trying to write in the
LocalMachine.

How can I bypass or impersonate the administrator to enable the app to write
values in the LocalMachine.

Thanks again,

RF

 

[Klaus H. Probst]

Why don't you set the permissions on the key instead. "Bypassing" certainly
won't work, and impersonating an administrator is probably a bad idea.

 

[Shakir Hussain]

You have to request permission to write

System.Security.Permissions.RegistryPermission permission = new
System.Security.Permissions.RegistryPermission(

System.Security.Permissions.RegistryPermissionAccess.AllAccess,@"HKEY_LOCAL_
MACHINE\Software\MySoftware\MyKey");

permission.Demand();