On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, James Weatherall wrote:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER is writable by the current user, by definition - it's set
to refer to the user's registry hive when they log on. In the case of the
Guest user, this is a temporary copy of the default user registry hive, and
so any data saved to it won't persist. Installing applications requires
write access to parts of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, as well as to parts of the
filesystem, which is why non-Admins can't normally install apps to systems.
Thanks, Wez. But what does this mean about running VNCviewer from an
account that doesn't allow installation of software? Some things persist
for later logins (e.g., list of recent connections), so does that mean
that VNCviewer writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE?
Mike
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Sent: 19 October 2007 15:04
To: Seak, Teng-Fong
Cc: VNC List
Subject: Re: VNC viewer and cd/thumb/flash/usb drive
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Seak, Teng-Fong wrote:
Mike Miller wrote:
If the user of the Windows machine does not have administrator
permissions and is not allowed to install software, does this mean
that VNCviewer cannot run from the thumb drive? I'm thinking that
the answer is yes because it won't be able to create the
registry entries.
It's written to this area:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\RealVNC\VNCViewer4
According to Microsoft...
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/r
eskit/regentry/51211.mspx?mfr=true
"A new HKEY_CURRENT_USER subtree is created each time a user logs on."
But the VNCviewer stores information more permanently. For
example, it remembers where I have previously connected. So
it must at least try to create other registry keys.
Also according to Microsoft:
"The HKEY_CURRENT_USER subtree does not contain any data. It
just stores a pointer to the content of..."
So if something is stored in HKEY_CURRENT_USER it is also
being written somewhere else.
The reason I am interested in this is that some friends in
another department have a very heavy-handed IT staff that
won't allow them to install any programs. I'm wondering if
there is no way around this restriction.
Mike
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