Access to the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE is denied

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Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey key; 
            key = Microsoft.Win32.Registry.LocalMachine.CreateSubKey("SOFTWARE\name");
            key.SetValue("test", "123");
            key.Close();
            return true;

By this code i want to create a subkey in Localmachine registry. but my system gives

Access to the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\name' is denied. error.
I am using admin user . How i solve it

Posted 2-Mar-15 20:55pm

ErBhati

Updated 28-Oct-18 5:16am

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Richard MacCutchan 3-Mar-15 3:44am

Are you sure that your program is running with Administration privilege?

ErBhati 3-Mar-15 4:10am

yes i m sure

Joan Magnet 3-Mar-15 6:10am

Can you do it using regedit?

George Swan 3-Mar-15 8:38am

It is not sufficient for you to be logged on as an administrator, you need to right click on the application and select 'Run as Administrator'

ErBhati 4-Mar-15 2:25am

I run my application set up as 'Run as Administrator'. but i found same error.

"Access to the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Test' is denied".

ErBhati 4-Mar-15 2:27am

@john i am doing it by code.

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ZurdoDev · Answer 1 · 2015-03-03T08:14:00

Solution 1

As mentioned in comments, this is a permissions/user access issue and not a code issue.

Posted 3-Mar-15 8:14am

ZurdoDev

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ErBhati 4-Mar-15 2:26am

I run my application set up as 'Run as Administrator'. but i found same error.

"Access to the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Test' is denied".

ZurdoDev 4-Mar-15 7:32am

You probably need to turn off UAC. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10151771/access-denied-when-creating-registry-key-in-c-sharp