Is there any way to give an ordinary user admin privs on the fly? Thought about using SU.exe but the key I need to modify is HKCU. When I invoke SU, I get a totally different HKCU. Need to save the user's old Outlook profile to a file before I delete it and install the MS new exchange profile. Plus am setting various Outlook defaults.

Saw an idea that may work:
1. $variable = @USERID
2. SU
3. savekey ("HKU\$variable\software\.....

Thoughts?

Alternative:
Can some tell me the syntax for invoking SU so it gives admin rights and retains the user's HKCU hive?

Option three:
Also anyone hear of a small exe the will modify the user's security token on the fly?

I find this problem real weird as regedit will do all the stuff I wnat to do manually without the weird permission problems.

Appreciate your/any ideas/thoughts on this problem. I'm at a real brick wall on this one.

Grant.

Welcome to the coolest bb around.

Per default, 'simple' users have read AND write access to keys in HKCU. This is were all personal stuff of the user is stored, like office settings.

So if you want to change these you should have no problems with permissions. (Unless you have taken those rights away from your users?)

This really bugs me as I can do what I need to do when I run regedit but I cannot seem to find a way to script this.

1. As per the KIX 3.x manual (as a note in the .DOC manual - no note in the on-line manual)