HKEY_CURRENT_USER
(HKCU) manages settings for the currently logged-in user. HKCU
is a symbolic link to the subkey HKEY_USERS\{SID}
where {SID}
is the User's account SID (and starts with S-1-5-21-…
). %USERPROFILE%\NTUSER.DAT
and USRCLASS.DAT
. SearchFilterHost.exe
) cannot access HKEY_CURRENT_USER
for logged on users.