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Kleopatra: Many wrong registry keys created in HKCU\Software\Gpg4Win
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split from T8140: Kleopatra: Segfault on start/import

Currently many wrong registry keys are created on start.

To reproduce

  • Start Kleopatra

Regedit

Procmon: I can see many of those (also note the tries for both Gpg4Win and Gpg4win):

14:25:59,7937289	kleopatra.exe	8800	RegCreateKey	HKLM\SOFTWARE\Gpg4Win\breeze	ACCESS DENIED	Desired Access: Read/Write
14:25:59,7939147	kleopatra.exe	8800	RegCreateKey	HKLM\SOFTWARE\Gpg4win\breeze	ACCESS DENIED	Desired Access: Read
[...]
14:25:59,8129144	kleopatra.exe	8800	RegCreateKey	HKLM\SOFTWARE\Gpg4Win\kwin	ACCESS DENIED	Desired Access: Read/Write
14:25:59,8130868	kleopatra.exe	8800	RegCreateKey	HKLM\SOFTWARE\Gpg4win\kwin	ACCESS DENIED	Desired Access: Read
[...]
14:26:01,6172890	kleopatra.exe	8800	RegCreateKey	HKLM\SOFTWARE\Gpg4Win\C:/Program Files/Gpg4win/share/color-schemes/BreezeLight.colors	ACCESS DENIED	Desired Access: Read/Write
14:26:01,6174843	kleopatra.exe	8800	RegCreateKey	HKLM\SOFTWARE\Gpg4win\C:/Program Files/Gpg4win/share/color-schemes/BreezeLight.colors	ACCESS DENIED	Desired Access: Read
[...]
14:26:07,8218049	kleopatra.exe	8800	RegCreateKey	HKLM\SOFTWARE\Gpg4Win\C:/Users/g10/AppData/Roaming/gnupg/kleopatra/kleopatragroups	ACCESS DENIED	Desired Access: Read/Write
14:26:07,8220641	kleopatra.exe	8800	RegCreateKey	HKLM\SOFTWARE\Gpg4win\C:/Users/g10/AppData/Roaming/gnupg/kleopatra/kleopatragroups	ACCESS DENIED	Desired Access: Read

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Version
gpg4win-5.0.2 (beta) @ win11

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timegrid triaged this task as High priority.Fri, Feb 27, 2:34 PM
timegrid created this task.
timegrid created this object with edit policy "Contributor (Project)".
timegrid mentioned this in T8140: Kleopatra: Segfault on start/import.
timegrid added a comment.Fri, Feb 27, 2:40 PM

Note: This was fine on gpg4win-5.0.1