Requested registry access is not allowed

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Hello,

I have installed SyncToy v1.0 on my PC as Administrator not for single user
use but for all the users. I never run the program as administrator.
I logged in as standard non-priviledged user and started to use the program.
At the end of the synchronization ("echo", but I do not think it counts) I
received the following error:

Exception during run: Requested registry access is not allowed.

Could you help please to fix? What is the registry if any to which I have to
give write access for the standard users?
 
I used sysinternals' regmon utility to sniff out the registry folders that
required write access\Full Control priveledges:

1) HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Eventlog\Application
2) HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Eventlog\Security

SyncToy creates a Subkey in the first location, so I removed permissions
from 1) and then set write permissions on the subkey
(HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Eventlog\Application\SyncToy)

Hopefully this helps, and that the SyncToy developers will fix this sweet
app so we don't have to play with the registry.

AC
 
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