[New-bugs-announce] [issue5839] RegOpenKeyEx key failed on Vista 64Bit with return 2

[Makursi]

New submission from Makursi <mak at aitag.com>:

I have installed 2.6.2 source(32bit) on Vista 64 bit. 
The function RegOpenKeyEx fails with returns "2". 
If I change the function to  
		rc=RegOpenKeyEx(keyBase,
			keyBuf, /* subkey */
			0, /* reserved */
			KEY_READ | KEY_WOW64_64KEY,
			&newKey);
it works fine. I have checked this in the debug build with my 32 bit 
C++ application. UAC is not enabled on my machine.
I hope the issue is fixed with the next version of python.

Regards
Manfred

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messages: 86497
nosy: makursi
severity: normal
status: open
title: RegOpenKeyEx key failed on Vista 64Bit with return 2
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.6

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