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[harry]

hi,
i made a progy for some friends/business people
the install works just dandy on 98
but not on xp
this is what i do
i put a key in the registry and the program counts down to 0
and tells you to register.
on xp the "trial use period " (of 3 uses) is used up durning the install
i use winzip or a wz exe to do the instalation.
i don't have xp but i'm wondering if xp runs a new program and" looks"
at the program signature or something using up the trial period. anyone know whats happening ?
thanks,
harry

[jules]

My guess is you don't have permission to write to that part of the registry under XP and so the value is never getting set to 3 in the first place.

[PGWARE]

Yup I suspect the same thing. If the program is not run under the administrators account then you wont be able to write to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.

You should always write registry values to HKEY_CURRENT_USER, this will allow even limited accounts to write and read to the registry; it also allows the program to run under multiple user accounts - with each having their own settings and configurations since HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry tree applies only to the currently logged on user.

[harry]

Thanks guys
harry