I've done a quick find/replace to change all the registry entries to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER - i didnt realise when i originally wrote it that the registry nodes had different write permissions.

As for the database, access is needed to read/write to it by all users

If i change the database installation location to C:\ProgramData\database.mdb will that be fully accessible to read/write for standard users?

I take it that the path for that would be :

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Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.CommonApplicationData)