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Posted by Stefan Kanthak on Mar 16

Hi @ll,

with Windows 2000, Microsoft virtualised the [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT] registry
branch: what was just an alias for [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClasses]
before became the overlay of [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClasses] and
[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareClasses] with the latter having precedence:
<https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724498.aspx>

Note: while [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClasses] is writable only by…

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