MSDN documentation for RegCopyTree states that ‘The calling process must have KEY_CREATE_SUB_KEY access to the destination key’, however call fails on some keys with Access denied error (5) on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. Changing desired access rights to KEY_ALL_ACCESS solves the problem. Currently I do not know why, but it works in my case.
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CreateProcessAsUser fails on Windows XP with System error 233
Today I fixed one bug that was very hard to reproduce. Many hours were spent to figure out what combination caused it: It happens only on Windows XP (not on Vista, Server 2003, 2008, Win 7); It does not happens on all Windows XP, because it is Race condition; I was unable to reproduce it …
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Microsoft’s PowerShell hangs when output is captured using Windows API
I was debugging a program that uses Windows API (Creating a Child Process with Redirected Input and Output) to capture stdout of Microsoft’s Windows PowerShell. Script passed to PowerShell (-File switch) didn’t execute and PowerShell just hanged until killed by Task Manager. It turns out that you need to use undocumented parameter “-InputFormat none”: C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe …
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