Problem writing to HKLM in Windows 7

Archive: Problem writing to HKLM in Windows 7

kokoroko
1st December 2009 20:49 UTC

Problem writing to HKLM in Windows 7
Hi,

I've got a problem running my installer on Win7. Basically I have an option to automatically start the application with system.

So I have this in my script:

WriteRegStr HKLM "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run" "MyApp" "$INSTDIR\myapp.exe"

Of course I have also RequestExecutionLevel admin so the setup is always run elevated.

The problem is there is nothing saved in the registry. And if I only change HKLM to HKCU it works well.

Is it not possible to write to HKLM in Windows 7?

kichik
2nd December 2009 10:07 UTC

Sounds like a misbehaving anti-virus to me.

kokoroko
2nd December 2009 15:57 UTC

Indeed, it works well.

Remember kids: always check your HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node registry branch!

ogden_ogly
16th December 2009 04:09 UTC

I am having an even more bizarre problem -- some of my writes are going to wow64, and others are going to the normal location.

Anyone have any thoughts? :) I'm using 2.46 and the newest registry plugin