Problems increasing Java Heap size on server

[Monedeath]

Originally Posted by m1abrams

You just right click the key on the left pane and select either properties or permissions I forget which options you get. Then it is just like setting permissions on files. Add a user and select the users permissions.

I recently had a round with this on Windows 7. Read only was not sufficient. Had to give the SageTV user account full access to the flag for

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Frey Technologies\SageTV]
"JVMMaxHeapSizeMB"=dword:00000400

After which point it worked fine under its own user account(and not needing to be run as the local machine)