Who’s who in the registry

Someone showed me this neat little trick a while ago (can’t remember who though. Sorry.) and I needed it today. I wanted to walk through the registry of a specific terminal server user. So I logged onto that terminal server too (using my own credentials) and opened up regedit… And then it hit me (again). I need to know the SID of the user to open his part of the registry.


To prevent having to get a SID ever again I implemented the earlier mentioned trick. I launched the RES PowerFuse console, went to Powerlaunch; User Registry and added a new String Value directly under HKEY_CURRENT_USER. I named the String “Username” and entered “%username%” as the value.



Now after a new logon the name of the user will be put in the registry and you can easily browse for the right user. So thanks for the tip.. Whoever you are ;-)