Cannot write key to HKLM even as Admin about node-winreg HOT 6 OPEN

How did you start the console? It's not only the user who must have admin, also the process must be launched with "elevated" rights. For me this works by right clicking the console shortcut and selecting the item with the shield icon in front of it, called something like "run as admin" (I run my Windows in German language). Apart from that I'm not able to reproduce your error.

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I started it exactly like that, with the shield saying "Run as administrator".

I think this specific error is related to global user rights, as in system admin because I can change other things but not the keys I was looking for.

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That's weird. Could it be some antivirus program blocking access to it? Or maybe you can configure it using Windows policies. But I can't really help you there.

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I know, figured i'd just add this here so you've got it logged for future users. If i manage to find out if that's the case and how to detect it i'll update.

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I added some notes on this to the README file. We can leave this open for now.

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This might be unrelated, however judging by the comments, I saw similar characteristics while trying to write to HKLM\Software\ and the values were not being set (although stdout and return codes indicated success). Turns out, I was not specifying x64 so the keys were under HKLM\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node. Kokarn, which keys were you attempting to write to?

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