Bob Butler

"Rick Raisley" <heavymetal-A-T-bellsouth-D-O-T-net> wrote in message
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> Isn't this to be expected? When a normal user is logged in, virtualization
> means that they see the virtualized data, be it files or Registry. So,
> like
> when looking at My Documents, when you browse HKCU, you are seeing the
> user's "version" of HKLM. Just like when you look at your Desktop you see
> all /your/ items, but also all items in the All Users Desktop. Even though
> only the /added/ items are actually on the user's desktop.

I would expect that when browsing HKLM I'd see the values overlaid with the
virtualized data that is stored in HKCU but when browsing HKCU I'd expect to
see just that. Seeing HKLM data when browsing HKCU makes no sense to me.

It's more like viewing the all users desktop folder and also seeing the
files from the current user's desktop there. That doesn't happen because
that merge only happens in one direction. The registry virtualization is
happening in both directions. Interesting that although MS did that they
ensured that regedit disables it.