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Changing the registry permissions in C#

I'm working on a app that displays according to a registry key value. The
user needs the ability to update the display, and hense the registry key
(via a click event on a popup menu). This all worked just fine until some
users were set up as power-users. I've tried to change the permissions on
that key programatically , on the fly, but to no avail.

Here's my question: While the user is logged in with limited permissions,
will the application be able to change the permissions or will it be bound
by the restrictions of the user?

Thanks.

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In short, from my experience, no. You're application is bound by the rights
of the user under which it is run. I has a similar situation where I was
writing a bespoke application on a corporate network and the standard users
didn't have read permissions to the registry hive I'd set up. The end result
was moving the configuration to the config file, which in my situation was
better anyway.

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I'm working on a app that displays according to a registry key value. The
user needs the ability to update the display, and hense the registry key
(via a click event on a popup menu). This all worked just fine until some
users were set up as power-users. I've tried to change the permissions on
that key programatically , on the fly, but to no avail.

Here's my question: While the user is logged in with limited permissions,
will the application be able to change the permissions or will it be bound
by the restrictions of the user?

Thanks.

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