Windows registry PermissionError

[Mike Dewhirst]

I'm trying to copy a value from HKLM to HKCU for application rollout via 
bulk installation by an administrator but individual Windows user setup.

Getting this ...

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "D:\Users\mike\envs\chemdata\registry\wreg\wreg.py", line 84, in 
<module>
     curegistry.setvalue('Country', anz)
   File "D:\Users\mike\envs\chemdata\registry\wreg\wreg.py", line 51, in 
setvalue
     return wr.SetValueEx(self.select(), vname, 0, 1, value)
PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied

... on my very own laptop where my login has admistrator permissions ... 
which I realise means nothing in this case.

But I would not have been surprised if it worked here but not in the 
field where users are firefighters and definitely not administrators and 
cannot install software on their workstations.

import winreg as wr


class Registry:

     def __init__(self, computer=None, hkey=None, sub_key=None):
         # computer is None means this computer
         self.computer = computer
         self.key = hkey
         self.sub_key = sub_key

     def connect(self):
         return wr.ConnectRegistry(self.computer, self.key)

     def select(self):
	# also tried OpenKeyEx()
         return wr.OpenKey(
             key=self.key,
             sub_key=self.sub_key,
             access=wr.KEY_ALL_ACCESS + wr.KEY_WRITE,
         )

     def query(self, vname):
         return wr.QueryValueEx(self.select(), vname)

     def setvalue(self, vname, value):
         return wr.SetValueEx(self.select(), vname, 0, 1, value)

if __name__ == "__main__":

     lmregistry = Registry(
         hkey=wr.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,
         sub_key="SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\XXX Technology\AppName",
     )
     print(f"\n{lmregistry.sub_key}")
     anz = lmregistry.query('Country')[0]
     print(f"\n{anz}")	# works fine

     curegistry = Registry(
         hkey=wr.HKEY_CURRENT_USER,
         sub_key="SOFTWARE\XXX Technology\AppName",
     )
     curegistry.setvalue('Country', anz)  <<<<< BOOM <<<<<
     ...

Any hints appreciated.

Cheers

Mike

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