Setting BrowserFlag per user for Citrix

Question

We have an app running in IE that requires Word documents to open in Word rather than IE. For customers still using Word 2003, we recommend they use the BrowserFlags registry setting to alter this setting for users.

The registry key is in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes.

A customer wants to deliver the app through a Citrix farm and is concerned that because the key is LOCAL_MACHINE this setting would then apply to all users of the Citrix image.

Is this concern correct? Is it possible to set BrowserFlags under HKEY_CURRENT_USER or similar?

Answer 1

Yes HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT is a merged view on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes and HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes so simply set the value in the HKCU hive.