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I have an application that needs to read some Registry keys from the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE branch. The application works with no problems when an administrator is logged in, but when a regular user is logged in the application crashes and it tells me I need to have administrator privileges.

How can I make this application work for a regular user?

The application works with no problem on regular Windows 7 and Windows 8 both with an Admin user or regular user.

Any help will be appreciated.

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    You can't, why are you putting user application data in the sytem level registry location instead of the user location? – Ramhound Oct 24 '14 at 21:13

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In the Registry, grant Read permissions to the Users group on the keys that the application needs to access. You can use Process Monitor to figure out which keys those are. This works great if all the application needs is Read access as you state.

Chances are that's not all the application requires, in which case Process Monitor can help you figure out what other things the program is trying to access.

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  • This was very helpful! Thank you so much! Sorry I can't give you a vote up because I am new and still do not have enough points to give a vote up. – user3614070 Oct 26 '14 at 13:39