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Accessing hkey_local_machine under nt without admin rights

Question: When using the TRegistry component under NT, a user with less than "administrator" rights is unable to access information stored in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. How can I work around this? Answer: The problem is caused by the fact that TRegistry (and the derived TRegInifile) always opens a key with KEY_ALL_ACCESS, even if only KEY_READ would be needed. You can avoid this by going back to using the API registry functions (RegOpenKey et al.), or create a new class from the TRegistry component, and change the new TRegistry class to add an access property.