Ed,

Thanks for your help clarifying the Registry's structure and your suggestion about checking the rights to the AllUsers folder. I guess that's one (admittedly indirect) way to check whether or not a user has admin priviledges?!

Good luck on Thursday (from your earlier posts on another topic to a different user).

Regards,
Malcolm


>HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT is actually a hive of HKEY_CURRENT_MACHINE, so it should be available to all users with entries under HKEY_USERS (or roaming profiles that merge into HKEY_USERS, and become selected as HKEY_CURRENT_USER) unless there are security policies that block access to specific hives for specific users or groups.
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>You can check if the user has sufficient rights to access the AllUsers folders, and that all users have sufficient rights to run the application. If not, you should not place a shortcut in the AllUsers subfolder structure for either the Desktop or the Start Menu.
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>ActiveX controls are either global, or global to a given installation of a particular application for operating systems supporting side-by-side deployment of components and DLLs.