>I've spent all morning trying to figure out why my VFP program kept getting wrong data from the registry.
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>I set the data using Regedit under HKEY_Local_Machine\Software\myprogramname. The keys and values are there no problem.
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>My application using the registry class tried to get the current values and kept coming up with values that were not what was there.
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>Why?
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>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.
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>Can the registry class check the real HKEY_Local_Machine\Software\myprogramname like it does in the good MS operating systems? Apparently not.
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>What a load of sh1t.
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>I may sound pi$$ed off.
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>I am.

Go trap shooting - it helps relieve the anger.