Hi Rick,
I logged as administrator and I get the same error. Is Administartor the same as Administrator group account ? IF not how do I change my admin group account. i am running XP pro.

TIA

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Are you logged in as an Administrator group account? Without that you can't write to Local Machine only to the user keys.
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>+++ Rick ---
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>>Hi guys,
>>i am trying to create a registry key in my code but i keep getting system.unauthorizedaccessexception occured in mscorlib.dll , cannot write to registry key.
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>>here is my code
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>>using Microsoft.Win32;
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>>RegistryKey Hklm = Registry.LocalMachine;
>>RegistryKey HkSoftware = Hklm.OpenSubKey("Software");
>>// errror on the line below
>>RegsitryKey Hkmycompany = Hkml.CreateSubKey("mycompany");
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>>Can anyone help me.
>>
>>TIA