windows-server-2008-x64

Creating registry entries in Windows 2008 64bit

I wrote a bunch of unit tests to cover the windows registry reading/writing. They use the CRegKey ATL api. These worked fine on my desktop machine of XP Pro, but when the tests came to run on the build machine - a Windows 2008 x64 Server - the tests fail with ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED when trying to create a key via Create. The user who is ...

Disable Registry Virtualisation for Visual Studio 2008 on Server 2008

I have a problem with a web service I'm trying to debug. There is a problem with the web service, but I don't seem to be able to get a handle on it, because when I run the same project in the Visual Studio Debugger, it can't find any relevant registry keys. They are just coming up null. When I tried listing all the available keys in HKLM...