[DUG] Windows Service accessing registry

[David Brennan]

I think windows services can access the HKEY_CURRENT_USER key of the
registry... but as you would expect a service accesses it for the user that
service is running under (ie look in Administrative Tools->Services and see
which user account the service starts as). So you need to configure the
service to run under the correct user.

That said I imagine it is poor practice. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE seems a much
more logical place for a service (which is generally regarded as being
machine level rather than user level) to store it's registry information.

David.
-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz] On
Behalf Of Trevor Jones
Sent: Tuesday, 26 July 2005 5:36 p.m.
To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'
Subject: RE: [DUG] Windows Service accessing registry

A service can read from and write to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, but you might also
try HKEY_USERS_DEFAULT if you store per-user information.

-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz] On
Behalf Of Phil Middlemiss
Sent: Tuesday, 26 July 2005 5:13 p.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: [DUG] Windows Service accessing registry

I've just worked out that Windows Services don't access the 
HKEY_CURRENT_USER section of the registry even if I set it too (which 
makes sense I guess). Where is the correct location in the registry I 
should be reading and writing to for a Windows Service?

Phil.
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