How do i access another user's registry portion in win XP?
how do i access another user's HKey_current_user on my machine, in vb2005 or if someone can recommend a software that can already do it.
Im trying to make a quick registry repair tool to fix a damaged or corrupted user
First, you can't, if roaming profiles are enabled the other user's registry on your machine may be incomplete or outdated.
Having said that you can use HKEY_USERS\user-sid
Obviously you have to run as administrator to access other users data.
To translate from SID to name look at this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/499053/how-can-i-convert-from-a-sid-to-an-account-name-in-c
To translate from name to SID look at this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/787419/unique-identifier-for-user-profiles-in-windows
Just an opinion but, usually running remote registry services is troublesome. I have made the utility to correct the registry entries locally and run the application remotely. PSExec is a great free utility from Mark and now MS to run your utility after you build and test it. You can give it a list of systems to hit or it will run it on each system in the domain. Your account does have to have remote execute rights but that's not usually a problem as an admin. Just be careful when you write the utility to be a bit more cautious as you may wind up running it on machines that you didn't intend to run it on.