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Can''t access the Classes subkey after loading user's hive in registry
On my PC, there is an administrator account and two user accounts. There is a particular CLSID subkey in the registry that appears only in the hive of one of the users, and I am trying to access that CLSID subkey while logged on to the administrator account.
When I am logged on to the user account, the target CLSID subkey appears at:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER \SOFTWARE\Classes\WOW6432Node\CLSID\{Target CLSID}
and, of course, it also appears at:
HKEY_USERS\<User SID>\SOFTWARE\Classes\WOW6432Node\CLSID\{Target CLSID}
However, when I log off from the user account and log on to the administrator account, and then load the user’s hive into the registry, Classes does not appear as a subkey of SOFTWARE for that user in HKEY_USERS.
In fact, when I am logged on to the user account, SOFTWARE has 12 subkeys, including Classes. But when I am logged on to the administrator account, with user’s hive loaded, SOFTWARE has only 11 subkeys - the missing subkey being Classes.
Can anyone please explain what is happening? Am I doing something wrong?