when using the registry... the hklm\software\microsoft\mouse is not a good location.

I have some vendor software that was writing its "uber secret" print counter information to this key (we have to pay for a number of print counters in this software). The thing is, the users needed admin rights to run the program and i at first could not figure it out, since users with admin rights were causing me no end of headaches.

I got on the phone, started talking with the tech support guy, and he just flat out told me... you have to run the program with administrator rights. I told him not good enough he told me tough titty... this went on for a little bit.

I then... whiped out reg mon, ran the "admin only" program.. and saw it toush the microsoft\mouse key, and i thought that was very weird. Sure enough there was one cryptic looking entry. i gave the user change rights to that key, and the program was able to run just fine with user rights

I did call the tech guy back up (small company only a few techs) and asked him, now, what was so damn hard about telling me about the microsoft\mouse key?

Bryce