title: Cannot read a registry value in Windows 8
body: <p>I have following C# code, which reads the UAC state from registry in Windows 7</p>
  
  <pre><code>object obj = Registry.LocalMachine.GetValue(@"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\EnableLUA", (long)1);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It works perfectly on Windows 7 with admin/not-admin accounts.
  It always returns the default value I provide it under Windows 8.
  The registry key is there. I can see its value with regedit. But the C# code does not read it. Can anybody tell why? It is a .net 4 application. The user account is unelevated admin.</p>