OK let me try to explain this again, but I think I must be treading new water here.

The framework seems to give us the ability Get/Set registry settings via cregistry class (which inherits much from csystemsettings). GoApp has the same GetSetting() and SetSetting() methods which is our wrapper for the cregistry functionality in 32-bit environment.

The preferenceform class makes use of cpreference based controls to read/write registry settings. cpreference in turn bangs the goApp wrapper methods.

That's all fine and dandy IF the registry settings in question already exist. I want to add about a dozen EXTRA registry settings for my app, over & above the registry settings Kevin's user preference form has ready-made for us.

Ideally, I would like to create my list of additional registry keys right after the usual user pref related registry entries are created. This is my original problem - I Cant Find Where those Registry Entries are first created. Any ideas?

After digging for this for the better half of the day with no luck, I decided "ok who cares where the original ones are created". I thought I would just do it in a prg and call it from goApp when the app starts for the time being and then use that prg in the install process later. I was thinking here I could just check and see if my extra registry entries exist, and if not then create them. Busted - 2nd Problem - it's not that easy since the functionality I need to do this is not natively exposed in the cregistry class. (cutils classlib) Specifically - OpenKey(), CloseKey(), and CreateKey() are protected methods despite the DevGuide document saying thier public. < sigh >

So fall back and punt - Has anyone created their own app-specific registry keys in a MMF app? If so, where did you handle it and did you use cregistry or bag it and roll your own?