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I need to do it programatically.<br />
is this possible? I tried <br />
ModifyPrivilege code in msdn, but was not successful.
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I need to do it programatically.
is this possible? I tried
ModifyPrivilege code in msdn, but was not successful.

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It is possible - see the 'lsapriv' sample in MSDN: <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/lsapol/lsapol_2d83.htm" rel="ugc">http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/lsapol/lsapol_2d83.htm</a>&nbsp;(&quot;Managing Account Permissions&quot;)<br />
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and<br />
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<a href="http://www.mvps.org/win32/lsa/index.html" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.mvps.org/win32/lsa/index.html</a><br />
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The sampl eitself is now part of teh PSDK samples, but this site incorporated it in a more comprehensive sample: <a href="http://www.mvps.org/win32/lsa/lsa_laar.cpp" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.mvps.org/win32/lsa/lsa_laar.cpp</a>
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It is possible - see the 'lsapriv' sample in MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/lsapol/lsapol_2d83.htm [http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/lsapol/lsapol_2d83.htm] ("Managing Account Permissions")

and

http://www.mvps.org/win32/lsa/index.html [http://www.mvps.org/win32/lsa/index.html]

The sampl eitself is now part of teh PSDK samples, but this site incorporated it in a more comprehensive sample: http://www.mvps.org/win32/lsa/lsa_laar.cpp [http://www.mvps.org/win32/lsa/lsa_laar.cpp]

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well, looks complicated ???
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It *is* complicated - but adjusting the samples to suite your needs usually isn't ;-)
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It *is* complicated - but adjusting the samples to suite your needs usually isn't ;-)

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I open a reg-key and use RegSaveKey<br />
to save it to a file, but I get<br />
above error. (win2000/and nt4)<br />
all I want is save the current values.<br />
and restore them later for a paticular registry hive.
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I open a reg-key and use RegSaveKey
to save it to a file, but I get
above error. (win2000/and nt4)
all I want is save the current values.
and restore them later for a paticular registry hive.

RegSaveKey, ERROR_PRIVILEGE_NOT_HELD

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