Hello all! I have been playing with TieRegistry lately and keep running into a "problem" with the Load() function. It seems that TieRegistry automatically UnLoads the hive that I have loaded after the script has completed. I am wanting to keep the hive open so that numerous other processes can use the hive after it has been loaded. Anyone know how to do this? Here is what I have so far: 
use strict;
use Win32::TieRegistry;

my $newSubKey='TEMPHIVE';
my $thefile = 'C://Documents and Settings//DefaultUser//ntuser.dat';

# Specify Hive
my $key= $Registry->{ 'HKEY_USERS' };

# Allow access to load hives
my $optValue = 'true';
my $oldOpts= $key->SetOptions( AllowLoad=>$optValue );

# Load the hive
my $newKey = $key->Load( $thefile, $newSubKey );
print $^E; #prints error description, if any.

# GetValues in TEMPHIVE
my $key = $Registry->{ 'HKEY_USERS\TEMPHIVE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
+\CurrentVersion\Run' };
my $sValueName ='TEST';
my $ValueData  = $key->GetValue( $sValueName );

print "\n $ValueData \n"; #prints value of TEST from loaded hive

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Upon completion of the script the hive is unloaded automatically. How do I keep TieRegistry from unloading the hive? Thanks! -Belmont

In reply to Win32::TieRegistry and Load() by Belmonts

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