I've spent all morning trying to figure out why my VFP program kept getting wrong data from the registry.

I set the data using Regedit under HKEY_Local_Machine\Software\myprogramname. The keys and values are there no problem.

My application using the registry class tried to get the current values and kept coming up with values that were not what was there.

Why?

Because @#$%#$ Vista has a VIRTUAL copy of the registry for the application under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\myprogramname that was set a few weeks ago by the program using the registry class to set HKEY_Local_Machine\Software\myprogramname.

Can the registry class check the real HKEY_Local_Machine\Software\myprogramname like it does in the good MS operating systems? Apparently not.

What a load of sh1t.

I may sound pi$$ed off.

I am.