Any Win 32 API\WMI class to read User Account Control settings programmatically?

[trey jonn]

Can the configured values of User Account Control Group policy Security settings on Vista and later, be read programmatically using a Win 32 API or a WMI class? If yes, do let me know the API\Class

I've already tried reading the registry values (that store the values of these settings - located under <HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system>) Now I'm looking out for a way to read these settings without using the Windows registry values directly