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Importing HKLM entry without admin rights

Anyone know if it is possible to import registry keys into HKLM as a user or power user? Typically only administrators can write to HKLM whereas users and power users can read/write to HKCU.
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no that's not possible. What's the reason for this? Maybe there's a workarodun possible.
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Need to be able to have a standard user reset kill bit (importing a registry entry) when necessary if automatic updates are enabled.  The only other solution I can think of is to disable automatic updates altogether, but this poses a security threat.
must this happen one time only?
If so then i would handle this via polcies, else i would create a application which has the permissons in it
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johnb6767:

Wow, I can't believe I missed that. You get to dealing with folders/files and forget that you can do pretty much the same thing with the registry. SubInACL may give same results in the end but being command line driven, it's a more vigorous approach. Giving modify rights to the particularly affected subkey did the trick. Thanks.
Glad it worked....