Registry ?

[Viper999]

I need to modify hcu key and above as a power user in XP. For My situation the Power user does not have rights to modify these keys. I know I can add the user to the Administrators group and make my changes, but I dont want to do it that way as there are 80 desktops. Is there a utility that will allow you to modfy keys as a user who doesnt have rights or is there a way to use the system account to accomplish this change? Any help would be appreciated.

[Afterdawn]

What specific key do you mean? But if you don't have the permissions to change a key, then you could try to edit the permissions of the key, and thén make the changes. If that doesn't work, I don't believe you can do what you wantl

[Viper999]

The problem is that power user doesnt have the ability to modify hkcu key and I want to use privilages of a higher accout to make the modiification. I can always modify permissions on the registry , but how can I grant and then revoke permissions in an automated fashion?

[Afterdawn]

Take a look at here:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=237607

It's about a command-line tool regini.exe, which is in Windows XP by default. With this tool you can change registry permissions from the command prompt. I don't know exactly how it works but you can look it up in the above-mentioned page.