Question

I am trying to create an registry, but it give me following message.

Access to the registry key ‘HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\aspire’ is denied

And following is my code.

protected void CreateRegistry()
    {
        dtStartDate = DateTime.Now;

        string strUser = Environment.UserDomainName + "\\" + Environment.UserName;

        RegistrySecurity rs = new RegistrySecurity();
        //rs.AddAccessRule(new RegistryAccessRule("Administrator", RegistryRights.FullControl, InheritanceFlags.ContainerInherit | InheritanceFlags.ObjectInherit, PropagationFlags.InheritOnly, AccessControlType.Allow));
        rs.AddAccessRule(new RegistryAccessRule(strUser, RegistryRights.FullControl, InheritanceFlags.None, PropagationFlags.None, AccessControlType.Allow));

        RegistryKey regDate = null;

        try
        {
            regDate = Registry.LocalMachine.CreateSubKey("Software\\aspire", RegistryKeyPermissionCheck.Default, rs);

            if (regDate != null)
            {
                regDate.SetValue("Date", dtStartDate.ToString(strDateFormat));
                regDate.Close();
                MessageBox.Show("created");
            }
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            MessageBox.Show(ex.Message.ToString());
        }

    }

when i am executing the same code in different system, the code runs correctly.
b’coz there isn’t created any user on that system.
But now in this system i have created 2 user from control panel, and this is happening with me.
Both Systems are running on Windows 7.

PLease help

Thank you

Answer 1

If you are using windows 7, start run the application in administrator mode. if you are debugging from visual studio, start visual studio in administrator mode.