Windows: Could not open/create prefs root node Software\JavaSoft\Prefs

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What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Launch java -Duser.language=en -jar josm-latest.jar for JOSM (13468 en) on Windows 7 64-Bit without .NET

What is the expected result?

Nice view in console without WARNINGS.

What happens instead?

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

Procmon tells that java.exe failed to exceute RegCreateKey on HKLM\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Prefs because of ACCESS DENIED while the Desired Access: Read.

Please provide any additional information below. Attach a screenshot if possible.

URL:https://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn/trunk
Repository:UUID: 0c6e7542-c601-0410-84e7-c038aed88b3b
Last:Changed Date: 2018-02-26 20:03:44 +0100 (Mon, 26 Feb 2018)
Build-Date:2018-02-26 19:06:27
Revision:13468
Redirecting:to URL 'https://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn/trunk':
Relative:URL: ^/trunk

Identification: JOSM/1.5 (13468 en) Windows 7 64-Bit
OS Build number: Windows 7 Professional (7601)
Memory Usage: 507 MB / 3604 MB (242 MB allocated, but free)
Java version: 1.8.0_161-b12, Oracle Corporation, Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM
Screen: \Display0 1280x1024
Maximum Screen Size: 1280x1024
VM arguments: [-Duser.language=en]

Last errors/warnings:
- W: No configuration settings found.  Using hardcoded default values for all pools.

[Don-vip]

This is ​javabug:8139507. Fixed in Java 9, sadly not backported to Java 8.