Alan: No...still returns 2 as an error. I can read other keys using registry,prg but not the Defender keys. I did change the owner of the key and made sure 'read' was checked but still returns an error. Thanks for any insight! Jack
________________________________________ From: ProfoxTech [[email protected]] on behalf of Alan Bourke [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 5:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: VFP6: Windows 8.1 Read A Registry Key If you run VFP as administrator does it work? -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Wed, 14 Jan 2015, at 10:04 PM, Jack Skelley wrote: > Al: > I can see the key in the registry: > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Defender > But I can't open it. It returns an error of 2. > Thanks for any insight! > Jack > > ________________________________________ > From: ProfoxTech [[email protected]] on behalf of Allen > [[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 4:39 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: VFP6: Windows 8.1 Read A Registry Key > > Sorry late in on this. Can you not see the key? Or is it the dword that's > the problem? > Al > > -----Original Message----- > From: ProfoxTech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jack > Skelley > Sent: 14 January 2015 22:32 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: VFP6: Windows 8.1 Read A Registry Key > > Ted: > Well, you know more than I do!!! > Thanks for looking. Unfortunately I don't have a plan B for this. > Perhaps Windows 10 will be better... > Best > Jack > > > > > --- > This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus > protection is active. > http://www.avast.com > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/7d9e7f72b813014c8fd022cf04f820ed0170813...@ex08.drdad.thenewarkarena.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
