WMI can sometimes be interesting to work with…I think I understand your question, so take a look at the code snippet below and let me know if it’s what you’re looking for. // ——————————————————————————————————————— // <copyright file=”Program.cs” company=””> // // </copyright> // <summary> // Defines the WmiChangeEventTester type. // </summary> // ——————————————————————————————————————— namespace WmiExample { … Read more
To manually review, you can use the regedit.exe application to load the privateregistry.bin file by doing the following: Launch RegEdit.exe Select the Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE node in the left-hand pane Select the File | Load Hive… menu item, and load the privateregistry.bin When prompted for a key name, just type in something like “VSRegHive” This will load … Read more
For those running Visual Studio 2015 or later, the best solution is to install the Editor Guidelines by Paul Harrington rather than changing the registry yourself. This is originally from Sara’s blog. It also works with almost any version of Visual Studio, you just need to change the “8.0” in the registry key to the … Read more
To delete the value set in your question: string keyName = @”Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run”; using (RegistryKey key = Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey(keyName, true)) { if (key == null) { // Key doesn’t exist. Do whatever you want to handle // this case } else { key.DeleteValue(“MyApp”); } } Look at the docs for Registry.CurrentUser, RegistryKey.OpenSubKey and RegistryKey.DeleteValue for more info.
You can use RegistryKey.OpenBaseKey to solve this problem: var baseReg = RegistryKey.OpenBaseKey(RegistryHive.LocalMachine, RegistryView.Registry64); var reg = baseReg.CreateSubKey(“Software\\Test”);
For what it’s worth, I’ve written a set of C# utilities that register/unregister a .NET type (should be marked as ComVisible of course) in user’s registry without requiring regasm, nor UAC prompts, you can use it like this: // register into current user registry, needs no specific rights ComUtilities.RegisterComObject(ComUtilities.Target.User, typeof(MyClass)); // unregister from user registry, … Read more
Documentation says that EnumKey returns string with key’s name. You have to explicitly open it with _winreg.OpenKey function. I’ve fixed your code snippet: from _winreg import * aKey = r”SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall” aReg = ConnectRegistry(None, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE) print(r”*** Reading from %s ***” % aKey) aKey = OpenKey(aReg, aKey) for i in range(1024): try: asubkey_name = EnumKey(aKey, i) asubkey … Read more
To remove the variable from the current environment (not permanently): set FOOBAR= To permanently remove the variable from the user environment (which is the default place setx puts it): REG delete HKCU\Environment /F /V FOOBAR If the variable is set in the system environment (e.g. if you originally set it with setx /M), as an … Read more
using the /passive switch you can install 64-bit ace drivers even if 32-bit ms office is present: http://blog.codefluententities.com/2011/01/20/microsoft-access-database-engine-2010-redistributable/ Just be warned that installing the 2010 64-bit ACE engine on a machine with 2010 32-bit Office already installed CAN lead to some wacky behavior in your already existing Office 2010.
The real association is stored in the key that “HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.xml” points to. On my machine, the default value of that key says “xmlfile”, most likely that is the same for yours. So let’s go to “HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\xmlfile”. There you can see (and change) what command is going to be used to launch that type of file: … Read more