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How tell which HKEY_USER is me?Hi
What you do you want/need to do with those values? If you don't know your way around the Registry - as it would seem - you perhaps shouldn't be in there in the 1st place!! -- Show quoteHide quoteWill Denny MS-MVP Shell/User Please reply to the News Groups "Andy" <nom***@nomail.com> wrote in message news:Xns986080E56210774C1H4@127.0.0.1... > How can I tell which HKEY_USER in the registry is me? As Will said. You should modify the registry settings only if you know what
you're doing. For better understanding the registry, please read the following articles: Description of the Microsoft Windows registry: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/256986 Registry Hives: http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/ms724877(VS.80).aspx -- Regards, Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User] Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com "Andy" <nom***@nomail.com> wrote in message How can I tell which HKEY_USER in the registry is me?news:Xns986080E56210774C1H4@127.0.0.1... > How can I tell which HKEY_USER in the registry is me? Who's "me"? The user currently logged on? If that's the case, then that would be HKEY_CURRENT_USER. If somebody else, then log in using those credentials, in which case *that* user's settings will now become HKEY_CURRENT_USER. You're not trying to change somebody else's registry settings, are you? "Andy" <nom***@nomail.com> wrote in message news:Xns986080E56210774C1H4@127.0.0.1... This key contains a list of users and their associated SIDs:> How can I tell which HKEY_USER in the registry is me? HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList This key contains a list of SIDs, and their associated registry hives: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\hivelist Of course, the correct way to access this information is through API functions, not by reading the registry. HTH -- Alec S. news/alec->synetech/cjb/net "Andy" <nom***@nomail.com> wrote in message There are several users on my machine and here is what I did.news:Xns986080E56210774C1H4@127.0.0.1... > How can I tell which HKEY_USER in the registry is me? One by one I logged on as each user and used Regedit to add one new key to HKEY_CURRENT_USER for that user. Specifically, I added a key named "A - username", with "username" replaced by the user name on whose registry I was working. Now, when I go to HKEY_USERS and open one of those long names like S-1-21-8235xxxxx-xxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxx-1004, the first key in the expanded list is "A - username", showing me that this is the registry for that user. This works fine for me Randy Scarborough
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"Randy Scarborough" <v***@ibm.net> wrote in message news:eQzbust8GHA.3916@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... Clever, but that's a brute-force method which does not indicate a clear connection between username and SID. The keys I mentioned> > "Andy" <nom***@nomail.com> wrote in message > news:Xns986080E56210774C1H4@127.0.0.1... > > How can I tell which HKEY_USER in the registry is me? > > There are several users on my machine and here is what I did. > > One by one I logged on as each user and used Regedit to add one new key to > HKEY_CURRENT_USER for that user. Specifically, I added a key named "A - > username", with "username" replaced by the user name on whose registry I was > working. Now, when I go to HKEY_USERS and open one of those long names like > S-1-21-8235xxxxx-xxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxx-1004, the first key in the expanded > list is "A - username", showing me that this is the registry for that user. > > This works fine for me are where Windows stashes the relevant information, but again, it's not the proper way to handle this; using an API function is the way to do it for anything other than curiosity. -- Alec S. news/alec->synetech/cjb/net  
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