My only opinion on this is that it's a mess and should be re-architected.
Just about the worst way of doing things has been carefully selected at
almost every step of the process. Like I said originally it's hard to know
even where to start. A day or so of re-design should solve many, many days
of troubleshooting.

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Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
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Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007
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Thanks for responding so quickly Ken. The installation is not one of
my design though I have made significant changes to it. During the
installation the user enters profile data (First Name, Last Name,
ect.) unfortunately since the user isnt the one installing the
application if the data isnt stored in HKLM the intended restricted
users profile wont have access to the profile data entered during the
install once they log onto their restricted profile. Hence the reason
I was writing user specific data to a non user specific hive. I could
perhaps write an additional function that moves the profile data from
HKLM to HKCU and then deletes the HKLM entries but that assumes I wont
run into the same problem accessing HKLM...I will work to move the
location of the registry value written by the button click to HKCU to
prevent the complications you have outlined.

objRegistrySettings.RegWrite HKEY_CURRENT_USER, "SOFTWARE\AddinName
\Settings", Button1, "1"

To elaborate further on the intended design when the button is clicked
the value that is written to the registry acts as a state switch. Once
the state switch has been set in the registry a seperate executable is
called via shellexecute that reads the state switch and loads to the
appropriate form then resets the state switch. Version 2 of the plugin
is a work in progress and will no longer require information be
entered during installation but rather on first launch in the meantime
however I would like to get the current version to an acceptable
functional level with out too much work on the installer. Im willing
to do what must be done any input would be greatly appreciated.

Brandon