title: JMeter starts with warning message
body: <p>I have JMeter set-up on my Windows 8 machine.
  When I startup JMeter it starts fine but leaves a warning message that I could not understand why.</p>
  
  <p>Here is the log that I see in the command prompt:</p>
  
  <pre><code>C:\Users\Ayusman&gt;jmeter
  Dec 20, 2013 12:52:57 PM java.util.prefs.WindowsPreferences &lt;init&gt;
  WARNING: Could not open/create prefs root node Software\JavaSoft\Prefs at root 0x80000002. Windows RegCreateKeyEx(...) returned error code 5.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is any body aware what could be the issue?
  I did check the registry information HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft and I do not see a "Prefs" folder in there. But am I supposed to create a registry entry there?</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>System Information:</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <pre><code>Windows 8, 32 bit.
  JMeter Version: 2.10
  Java Version: 1.7.0_25
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>