Admin gets access denied

[vipin_nvk]

Hello My application works only with administrative login because it has to access keys under HKLM in the PC and also works on process's to get their information like the process name and its other details. But though I have an administrative login in one of the PC's the RegOpenKeyEx() API with KEY_READ flag fails to read a particular key under HKLM (a key which is by default present on a PC installed with windows XP) Also, when I try to open a process using OpenProcess( PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION |PROCESS_VM_READ,FALSE, ProcessID), this API fails to open the process inspite of having SE_DEBUG_NAME privilege. What could be the reason for this? Is it possible that though a user has Admin privileges, access to the registry can be denied? Thanx.

[Mark Salsbery]

What are the error codes? Do the errors go away if you run the app as an administrator? Mark

Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java: