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whippey

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Hey guys

I have a major problem! My registry Editor will not add any of my games. I go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE and I don't see any of my installed games like Age of Empires 3, Battlefield 2 or any of the Dawn of wars. I am trying to install Dawn Of War winter assault and it says that i must please install Dawn of war, but i have already installed it but my registry editor doesn't seem to add any of the relevant information. I am running Windows 7 64-Bit...

Pleas help me!
 
Most probably a virus which prevents access to the Registry.

On the other hand, have you tried installing those games with administrator rights? (run as administrator)
 
The_Librarian said:
Most probably a virus which prevents access to the Registry.

On the other hand, have you tried installing those games with administrator rights? (run as administrator)
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No I have not, i shall try that tonight :)
 
The advice above should work. However, I'm curious as to how you came about realizing this. Did you randomly just check your registry? Was the game not working? Or did you want to edit some registry values for whatever reason (possibly from the internet) and that's when you saw it?
 
whippey said:
Hey guys

I have a major problem! My registry Editor will not add any of my games. I go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE and I don't see any of my installed games like Age of Empires 3, Battlefield 2 or any of the Dawn of wars. I am trying to install Dawn Of War winter assault and it says that i must please install Dawn of war, but i have already installed it but my registry editor doesn't seem to add any of the relevant information. I am running Windows 7 64-Bit...

Pleas help me!
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The_Librarian is correct about needing to use the "Run as administrator" context menu option.

My experience is that regsvr32.exe silently ignores attempts at being run without "Run as administrator" rights (regsvr32.exe returns an "errorlevel" of 0 which suggests success), this includes per-user registration using /i:user to call DllInstall.
 
mercurial said:
The advice above should work. However, I'm curious as to how you came about realizing this. Did you randomly just check your registry? Was the game not working? Or did you want to edit some registry values for whatever reason (possibly from the internet) and that's when you saw it?
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Interested to know as well. Are you not in the admin group maybe?
 
Try putting UAC on it's lowest possible setting and re-installing - see if it helped at all...

If you use the category view:

Control Panel => User Accounts and Family Safety => User Accounts => Change User Account Control settings

Icon View:

Control Panel => User Accounts => Change User Account Control settings

Edit: And don't forget to mention how the heck you figured out that was happening in the first place :D
 
tried everything and nothing is working.

I want to install Dawn Of War Winter Assault, it says I cant because dawn of war is apparently not installed even though it is. The problem is that my computer will not add the necessary values for my installed games in the Registry.
 
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