HKCU randomly uses Users registry entry

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Hello Wolfgang,

you do need a default value to understand if the expected value is there.
If you pass in for example "$%&" as default value and the call returns that string, you can be sure that the value is not there.

I think you still misunderstand what I wrote.
In a sense I have a default value: an empty string. I read the registry value and get a non empty string - so using your recommendation I would conclude it worked. But I got that string (in seemingly random situations) from the users hive instead of HKCU. And this is a critically different (non empty) value than the one I asked for, from HKCU.

Dick