registry

What registry access can you get without Administrator privileges?

by

In general, a non-administrator user has this access to the registry: Read/Write to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER Read Only: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT (which is just a link to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes) It is possible to change some of these permissions on a key-by-key basis, but it’s extremely rare. You should not have to worry about that. For your purposes, your application … Read more

How to pass in multiple file/folder paths via a right-click event (verb) to an executable?

by

If you’re looking for a quick and dirty workaround, you can create a shortcut to your executable in ‘%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo’ Now you can select a bunch of files, right click, select Send To, and your application. This will pass all the selected files as individual command line options to one instance of your application… keep in … Read more