>>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.
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>Go trap shooting - it helps relieve the anger.

I'd like to fling this Vista machine and pick it off with my 12 Guage.