MIDI program warning

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I am running a MIDI program given in Head First Java in code kitchen section "First Music Video" program is running but there is warning

WARNING:Could not open/create prefs root node Software\JavaSoft\Prefsat root 0x80000002. Windows RegCreateKeyEx(...) returned error code 5.

can anyone explain what is this ?

java
midi
asked on Stack Overflow Nov 24, 2016 by user007

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You may need to create a registry key HKLM\Software\JavaSoft\Prefs (or HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\JavaSoft\Prefs in W10) for it to work.

see this post:

Groovy Shell warning "Could not open/create prefs root node ..."

answered on Stack Overflow Nov 24, 2016 by Sanjay Manohar • edited May 23, 2017 by Community

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