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Vista - RE: CLID, SID, GUID or UUID?

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Old 12-28-2007   #1 (permalink)
amar


 
 

RE: CLID, SID, GUID or UUID?



"Vinson" wrote:
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> I have written a program that can set certain policy in Vista, and it worked
> well until Vista sudden surprised me. Some policy is set in the HKCU hive
> which affects both user and machine level policy. Until a moment ago, it was
> simple to enumerate these keys and find the right path to complete a policy
> setting. When enumerating, you would find unique keys in the path like the
> one below:
>
> {4A9E4C6C-4C1C-454A-BFB9-0FA926B1A5FC}User
> {22FE4C6C-4F1C-4CDA-B9A9-A93DE2AC3EDF}Machine
>
> The process works every time, unless Vista decides to add two additional
> keys to the path; one additional machine and one user key. Then, it becomes
> a mystery! =\
>
> Can anyone tell me how to resolve the User key above into the user currently
> logged in? I would like to have a clearly defined path before apply policy.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Vinson
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> I got the same problem .Can please somebody help us?

Amar

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