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String withs "\\"-Symbols (sample Path)

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:53:24 -0000

Registry strings with "\\" symbols bug. Sample is one registry-export file with line
blabla="C:\\Windows\\System32"
readed as "C:WindowsSystem32".

Fatal error in WindowsPreferences without admin privs

Willem van Engen — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:54:52 -0000

When the user has no administrative privileges, the java.util.prefs.WindowsPreferences code tries to open the Java preferences registry key in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. When not present (which is the case on a clean install), it cannot create it and fails with the following message:

java.util.prefs.WindowsPreferences <init>
WARNING: Could not open/create prefs root node Software\JavaSoft\Prefs at root
0x80000002. Windows RegCreateKeyEx(...) returned error code 5.

the registry cannot be accessed after that.

Anything that is type DWORD comes back as null

Anonymous — Mon, 26 May 2008 22:05:15 -0000

When I try to get a value set as a dword, it comes back as null no matter what it is set as.