in reply to windows 7 HardwareID

It does sound like you have stumbled-upon a Win7 difference, and I’m sure that Microsoft must talk about it somewhere on MSDN.   When you find out, please report back.

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Re^2: windows 7 HardwareID
by TomKane (Beadle) on Nov 20, 2011 at 21:21 UTC
    Thanks for your reply. Yes, I'm looking in MSDN and will continue to plug away until I can worry it out. Everything so far indicates that I should be able to use Access => "KEY_READ" in Tie::Registry as read-only doesn't endanger the Windows 7 security. I'll share whatever I come up with.
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