Bug #7554 Can't run without admin privileges on Windows, got ERegistryException
Submitted: 28 Dec 2004 11:23 Modified: 14 Feb 2005 9:58
Reporter: Rainer Müller Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Query Browser Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:1.1.4 OS:Windows (Windows XP Home SP2)
Assigned to: Mike Lischke CPU Architecture:Any

[28 Dec 2004 11:23] Rainer Müller 
Description:
If the Query Browser is started on an account without admin privileges, I get the normal Windows error messages that a problem has occurred and the program has to be closed.

How to repeat:
Run the program on a account without admin rights.

Suggested fix:
Because of the ERegistryException, I think it tries to write to the registry anywhere in HKLM instead of HKCU.
[28 Dec 2004 17:58] MySQL Verification Team 
I tested on XP Home Edition with limited user and on W2k with
standard and restricted user without to repeat the behavior reported.
[28 Dec 2004 18:15] Rainer Müller 
Now I created a new limited user account and on this one it works. So it has something to do with my account. I will try to investigate it more.
[28 Dec 2004 18:17] Rainer Müller 
problem report generated by Windows XP SP2

Attachment: 2d8_appcompat.txt (text/plain), 19.45 KiB.
[28 Dec 2004 18:46] MySQL Verification Team 
Thank you for the update. I changed the status to not a bug.
[29 Dec 2004 17:50] Rainer Müller 
Please reopen that bug. I have found out that is error occures if you select "Associate sql/query files with Query Browser" on a limited user account.
Query Browser tries then on the next restart to associate it (after choosing a server), but it does not have permissions to do so.
It should be HKEY_USERS\<user_id>_Classes, instead of in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.
<user_id> has to be replaced with some long alphanumeric combination I don't know where it come from.
At least some error like this should not prevent Query Browser to connect to a server.
[29 Dec 2004 23:49] MySQL Verification Team 
Thank you for the update. I was able to repeat the QB crash.
[14 Feb 2005 9:58] Mike Lischke 
Thank you for your bug report. This issue has been committed to our
source repository of that product and will be incorporated into the
next release.

If necessary, you can access the source repository and build the latest
available version, including the bugfix, yourself. More information 
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