How to get past SecurityException accessing Registry?

Question

In the Microsoft documentation for System.Console (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.console?view=net-5.0#examples) there is an example related to "font linking". One part of that example is shown in the code snippet

            RegistryKey key =   
                Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey   
                    (@"Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontLink\SystemLink",  
                     true);  

However, when I run the example, I get a SecurityException as shown below:

How do I give myself permission to access the Registry from a C# program?

Answer 1

Write access to the HKLM portion of the registry usually requires that a process is running with elevated privileges (as Administrator). By passing "true" to OpenSubkey the sample code is requesting write access.

Answer 2

If you don't want to right-click and select "run as Administrator" then you can manifest your application to "requireAdministrator".

Answer 3

Have you tried adding a manifest file and work with the following by uncommenting.