TECHNICAL NOTE
9 April 2018
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When launching the PowerAlert application, a console window will appear.  Under certain conditions, the console may display the following message:

"WARNING: Could not open/create prefs root node Software\JavaSoft\Prefs at root 0x80000002. Windows RegCreateKeyE:@...) returned error code 5."

PLEASE DISREGARD THIS WARNING.
The conditions that generate this warning message have no impact on the proper operation of the PowerAlert application. 

However, the console window must remain open during operation; do not close this window.

This issue affects the following PowerAlert applications:

* PowerAlert Local
* PowerAlert Network Management System
* PowerAlert Console Launcher

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END TECHNICAL NOTE
