Hi, I am writing an app in VB6 for which I intend to store configuration settings in the registry. I am just trying to get my head around the implications of doing this, and whether it might just be better to user an ini file instead.

Currently the account I am using to write the app on has full permissions to registry so I have not had any problems making the changes as needed. However, I don't know whether the target machines the app will be installed on will have the same permissions, and thus will not alllow the changes to be made.

I think VB runs as the current user, so I suspect that if the current user does not have permission to make changes to registry, any attempt to do so will fail, right?? So far I have looked at making changes to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE hive, but looking at the other hives I notice the HKEY_LOCAL_USER hive which I thought that maybe by default may accessible to the local user for editing. I'm not sure if this is the case, and maybe all registry editing is prohibited if the user has permissions revoked.

If anyone can put me straight I'd be very grateful.