From: Robo <robo@...>
Date: 2005-10-08T10:06:51+09:00
Subject: Re: access denied when trying to write to win32 registry

I had that problem before, took me a long time to find out, try this:

Win32::Registry::HKEY_CURRENT_USER.open('Software\Microsoft\SomeSoftware', 
  Win32::Registry::KEY_WRITE) do | reg |
     reg.write_s('SomeKeyName', 'my new value')
end

Robo

Shea Martin wrote:
> I am to this:
> 
> Win32::Registry::HKEY_CURRENT_USER.open('Software\Microsoft\SomeSoftware') 
> do | reg |
>     reg.write_s('SomeKeyName', 'my new value')
> end
> 
> But it gives me an error saying that access is denied.  I can 
> successfully read the key.  Using regedit, I can change the value of the 
> key.  Is there some flag I need to set when I open the entry?
> 
> 
> I can't seem to find docs in rdoc.
> 
> ~S