Hey all. I'm searching for a solution (that should exist) but lo and behold,
could not find it anywhere easily.

Here's the situation. On XP and Terminal Server 2003, when a user is an
Admin or power user, they have access to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Licenses. Regular
users apparently do not (please advise if this is incorrect after reading
below as this is what I was told by a vendor). I need to instruct
administrators how to open that access up for regular users. I can't find
out how. The Help in the MMC isn't very helpful on it and the only KB
article I could find was http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q153183/

The problem occurs because I have an ActiveX control that checks to see if
it is licensed by looking in the registry path. If it can't find it, it pops
up and say "Evaluation copy" - which isn't true.

Anyone able to help me out or point me to a descriptive solution? FYI - I
will be making the solution publicly accessible as this appears to be a
common problem with a solution that isn't easily findable.

Thanks

Andrew MacNeill

Do you need read or modify access ?

Andrew MacNeill wrote:

IMHO, the article applies in regards to reading a remote registry and not a
local one. So the question is, if the program is installed local, what
attributes are you passing to the RegOpenKeyEx API call? (Users should have
KEY_READ unless the site went outside a *default* install.)

/neo

PS - Comments based at looking at registry ACLs on WinXP/2003 and not a TS.

"Andrew MacNeill" <andrew@aksel.com> wrote in message
news:eHG8WeSTGHA.5264@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...