[Qt-interest] QSettings registry path in Windows 7

[Josh]

Thanks for the hint! I've been reading up on this and it looks like I need 
a .manifest file to get sufficient permission to modify global registry 
settings. Is this correct? Does anyone know if I can do this with Qt and 
MinGW, or do I need Visual Studio? Is there a Qt way to do this (ie. in 
the .pro file)? I've tried the following .manifest file (and including the 
.manifest file in a .rc file) and Windows is still virtualizing the 
registry. Any hints on how to do this in Qt with MinGW? Thanks!

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0">
   <assemblyIdentity version="1.0.0.0"
      processorArchitecture="X86"
      name="myapp"
      type="win32"/>
   <description>My Software</description>
   <!-- Identify the application security requirements. -->
   <trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2">
     <security>
       <requestedPrivileges>
         <requestedExecutionLevel
           level="asInvoker"
           uiAccess="false"/>
         </requestedPrivileges>
        </security>
   </trustInfo>
</assembly>

Josh

> Hello, Josh
> 12.09.2010 1:55 you wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I just noticed that when saving QSettings to Native Format at the System
>> Scope, Windows 7 doesn't store my registry settings to:
>> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\MySoft
>> but to some crazy path like:
>> HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1227889133-3943895522-1993576771-1001\Software\Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\MyApp
>>
>> The problem being that when another user installs my app, they can't
>> access that registry setting (that's why I chose SystemScope, but I want
>> this setting to be across the whole machine). Am I missing something? Is
>> this a known bug? Thoughts on how to fix it?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Josh
>
>
> This is how MS virtualisation works. There is nothing to do with Qt.
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa965884(VS.85).aspx
>
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