HKCR and Shim

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Jim - 23 Feb 2006 19:41 GMT

I noticed the Shim uses HKCR in order to place the load behavior;
however if a non-admin users tries to register the shim they do not have
permissions to write to HKCR.
Any clues on how to get around this?

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Jim - 23 Feb 2006 19:56 GMT

Well I may have solved it. In the registry file in the Shim I changed
from HKLM to HKCU, I thought I may have to change the HKCR, but it seems
that HKCR will write to HKCU first.
Contact me if you have any shim install issues, I may have some insight.

> I noticed the Shim uses HKCR in order to place the load behavior;
> however if a non-admin users tries to register the shim they do not have
> permissions to write to HKCR.
> Any clues on how to get around this?

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Josh Einstein - 24 Feb 2006 06:55 GMT

That has other drawbacks too. Now other users on the machine can't use the
software. I force admin install with more to avoid that.

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> Well I may have solved it. In the registry file in the Shim I changed from
> HKLM to HKCU, I thought I may have to change the HKCR, but it seems that
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>> permissions to write to HKCR.
>> Any clues on how to get around this?

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