Problem
You
want to update registry using an application but application encounters errors
recorder HERE:
Solved
Switched
from using the user hive hogging advapi32 API and now using
System.Security.Principal.SecurityIdentifier to retrieve the SecurityIdentifier for the specific user whose registry I want to update
and proceeding to use Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey to read and set the update keys.
The
code looks something like this (sample code):
NTAccount ntAcct = new
NTAccount(definedUserName);
SecurityIdentifier secId = (SecurityIdentifier)ntAcct.Translate(typeof(SecurityIdentifier));
String userSedId = secId.ToString();
String userRegPath = userSedId + @"\Software\Google\Path...\Path..\Path";
RegistryKey regKey = Registry.Users.OpenSubKey(userRegPath,
true);
userRegPath will look something like "S-9-9-99-1234567890-1234567890-123456789-123456\Software\Google\Path...\Path..\Path"
regKey will look something like "HKEY_USERS\S-9-9-99-1234567890-1234567890-123456789-123456\Software\
Google\Path...\Path..\Path"
Note to self: Stop playing with user hive already..
