>I am aware that you can lock the registry from tools such as REGEDIT. Are you saying that other applications are locked out? I didn't know you could do that. How do you handle things like Word that save everything to the registry? BTW, if this is the case, you can unlock the registry in your code, then lock it again. There is an API call that will do this for you.

I can install anything, I just can't use REGEDIT if I need to manually change anything - if there's a problem, I have to write code or call LAN. It makes it real PITA to use the registry for my own apps.

With my test copy of NT, they've given me full Admin rights, and I've needed it several times already to edit the registry to get things working. It's great, and I certainly hope they leave my full rights on when we go prime time. I might give using the registry for my app settings a new try, at that point...