The problem is probably because changes to the registry will require using elevated permissions - which is why I suggested using Scheduled Tasks for the job, as you can run the script under either the user permissions, or under the Administrator account - or under the System account
Noel, apologies for needing to ask... any chance you can guide me through how to do this or point me to an article on how to do this?
It's only on one particular PC and only for one particular user, where I either need on each login for the system to populate data in to the registry under hkey_current_user, or for it to at least remember the data which was already there the last time they logged on. I'm guessing it'll be easier to setup a scheduled task to add the data in, rather than try to back date to whenever they last logged on?
I appreciate everyone's help with this.
thank you - now I need to write a batch file... so i'll do some reading up on that.
guessing that in order to add a reg key even through a batch file is going to require permission to access the registry for this particular user... so that kind of brings us back to step one of the problem, even if going through a scheduled task then will it work without regedit permissions?
okay, now at this point I feel like I am simply leaving myself breadcrumb notes to myself... you can ignore any waffling that I now do.
You can use the REG ADD command to add registry values/keys - yes, it would have to be in an Elevated context.
Hi Shadowwebs,
To what degree of certainty do you suspect that Julie is precisely experiencing a permission issue?
It would help if we all could view the access rights that each of the users Bob, Jane and Julie have for this registry key in question. A comparison can then be made to determine if the problem does relate to a permission issue or not.
For each of the users, login as that user and run the following command in a PowerShell shell,
What are the outputs for each user?Code:(Get-Acl 'HKCU:\Software\Developer\ProgramName') | fl
I've managed to resolve this, well, up to a certain point, so I found that all network user accounts work fine and remember the details, other than Julie's... so it's got to be a corrupt network profile, going to be resetting the profile tonight and will see what happens from there on.
Keep us posted on the results. But I'm somewhat confused because you stated that the program was installed on local computer. At least that is my understanding.
I asked this question in post #6.
Your post #7Is this program installed on the domain/network server?
I will just keep watching and learning.The software is installed locally, and it needs set configuration settings which are stored in hkey_current_user\software.... but if the user doesn't have permissions to this folder, it loses the settings each time they log off and back on again. Does that help?
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