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Asked: 2026-05-26T18:58:07+00:00

I’d come to this conclusion through experience and various things I’ve read on this

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I’d come to this conclusion through experience and various things I’ve read on this internet, but in stating it to a co-worker, it seems illogical. Can you verify the following statement is true, or provide a counter to it?

On Vista/Win7, two standard (non-elevated users) cannot read/write the same location in the registry.

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    On Vista/Win7, two standard (non-elevated users) cannot read/write the same location in the registry.

    This is a false statment

    On Vista/Win7, two standard (non-elevated users) cannot write the same location in the registry in the default configuration.

    But this is true. By default, users only have write access to their own hive (HKEY_CURRENT_USER) and read access to the machine hive (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE).

    If you want to configure a location where any user can read and write, you can certainly do by configuring a key’s ACL, as @Dark Falcon said. A good place for this is somewhere inside your application’s key in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, and at install time (when your installer has elevated privileges to do so).

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