Take ownership of registry key with .NET 2.0?

How does one go about taking ownership of a registry key using VB.NET 2008 *IF* one has only TakeOwnership privilege?

The problem is exactly as specified in MS KB Article ID: 111546 at:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/111546/EN-US/

...except that I would like to know how to do it in VB.NET 2008

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

That article gives you the answer. It tells you that need to use the RegOpenKeyEx API. I think that example is in C#, but that's not a big deal. Just look up the API on Google, MSDN, PInvoke, or all of them.

Yeah I looked out and got these two functions for VB.NET

vb Code:

Declare Auto Function RegOpenKeyEx Lib "advapi32.dll" ( _
   ByVal hKey As IntPtr, _
   ByVal lpSubKey As String, _
   ByVal ulOptions As Integer, _
   ByVal samDesired As Integer, _
   ByRef phkResult As Integer _
) As Integer
 
    Declare Function RegSetKeySecurity Lib "advapi32" (ByVal hKey As Long, ByVal SecurityInformation As Long, ByVal pSecurityDescriptor As Security.SecurityZone) As Long

Now how to use them to get what I want

Bump......

I tried a lot but couldn't find anything

What exactly did you try?