Windows 10: How to switch between HKLM and HKCU quickly in Registry Editor

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If you want to switch between the HKLM and HKCU keys quickly in the Registry Editor quickly, here is a small tip to help you. At times, you might need to find the same HKLM keys in the HKCU or vice versa. In such situations, you can follow this guide to switch between HKLM and […]

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Registry Change For All Users - HKCU vs HKLM

If the app itself only reads HKCU keys (i.e. does not even attempt to read the HKLM keys) then adding settings under HKLM will never function.

A solution would be to add the relevant keys in HKCU for the "Default" user account - immediately after installing Windows. Thus, any users "added" after installation would have those keys in their registry under HKCU. Or, prepare a custom installation image which contains those keys in the "Default" user profile (registry).

Neither approach may satisfy your needs if you are trying to address a system that is already populated with multiple accounts. In that case, perhaps a simple registry script that can be manually run for each existing user account is the direction you would need to go in. A script would package all the registry keys and be relatively efficient...but, it would still require manually logging in and running the script for each account individually.

There are other script solutions that can be run against accounts without logging in to each account. However, such approaches are more apropos to domains and enterprise solutions.

 

Registry Change For All Users - HKCU vs HKLM

I have a very simple utility I found that has a few settings. If you make changes those settings are stored in HKCU\Software and then the product name\Settings. I want to install the utility so that anyone on the machine that logs on has those same settings, so I installed the settings under HKLM instead, using the keys generated from HKCU when using the program and making setting changes. But it looks like that's not working, at least for some users. If a program needs to access its settings in the registry and they're not there in HKCU won't it look and grab them from HKLM, or is that a programmatic decision?

Any ideas how to get the settings to take effect for all logged on users?

 

Accidentally delete wrong in the registry editor

Hmmm. Those entries look fine. So I'm guessing your issues are with permissions under:
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as HKCR is the synthesis of HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes and HKCU\SOFTWARE\Classes: