Writting to User Registry

[Wayne Gibson]

Hi,
Was wondering if anybody could help.
I want to be able to write some registry settings for another user profile
on a machine.
I am logged in as the administrator, but can't seem to find any examples of
how to do this.

I know it can be done, as I have seen WinGuides - Tweak Manager do it..

Any Ideas..

Thanks

Wayne Gibson

 

[Igor Tandetnik]

Was wondering if anybody could help.
I want to be able to write some registry settings for another user profile
on a machine.

All user's hives are subkeys of HKEY_USERS. The name of the key is a
textual representation of a user's SID, as I understand.
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With best wishes,
Igor Tandetnik

"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat,
and wrong." H.L. Mencken

 

[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

Hi,
Was wondering if anybody could help.
I want to be able to write some registry settings for another user profile
on a machine.
I am logged in as the administrator, but can't seem to find any examples of
how to do this.

I know it can be done, as I have seen WinGuides - Tweak Manager do it..

Any Ideas..

A manual way:

Start regedit.exe.

Type "loading a hive" in Regedit's help (under the index tab).

Load the user profile (typically C:\Documents & Settings\<user
name>\NTUSER.dat).

 

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Impersonation may be helps you

 

[Steve]

I think maybe a local policy for your machine would do
waht you are wanting. Look at running the MMC for Group
Policy, the build a local policy. You can do some great
stuff with Policies..
-Steve

 

[Harvey Shields]

If you can get away with it use LoadUserProfile, otherwise you have to get
user sid to create path to hive and load it manually. Not fun.

Good luck
Harvey Shields

 

[Wayne Gibson]

Thanks Guys..

Any code samples anywhere ?

 

[Sally McBoil]

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=LoadUserProfile&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&meta=

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