This is the C# code. Can you help me translate this to powershell? private static void Main(string[] args) { byte[] buffer = (byte[]) Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(@"HARDWARE\ACPI\DSDT\HP____\8510x\00010000").GetValue("00000000"); if (File.Exists("8510x.orig")) { Console.WriteLine("File 8510x.orig already exists...
How I can delete in Windows c++ registry keys with subkeys? RegDeleteKey() doesn't work. ...
I'm trying to read values from the registry but somehow I seem to be getting the wrong registry. I can't read from any keys that I create and changing the values of keys that I am able to get seems to have no effect. I'm using Registry.GetValue to get the values and it is returning either null for my keys or the original value for the ...
Hi, I develop a utility that has to write into Windows registry. I'm wondering if users who have not administrator rights, can write to registry. I tried the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" and it is locked. Is there any section in registry that these users can write into? If not - what rights are necessary for users to write into registry if they...
I want to modify a restricted registry key in Vista under HKCU hive programatically. Can anybody help me out in this regard? ...
There's probably some nice way of doing it (in Windows XP) in VBScript (or some other scripting language) with registry tweaks. Anyone know how? ...
I've been playing with this and I can't understand why the RegDeleteKey function is resulting to a file not found error.. I created this test key and it exists. HKLM\Software\test I am also the administrator of this computer. OS is Vista 32 bit. int main() { HKEY hReg; LONG oresult; LONG dresult; oresult = RegOpenKeyE...
i create an registry key by program ....In this path .. computer/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/test but i cannot delete that key by manually and programming ..while deleting through manually ,In reg message "cannot delete ........key: Error while deleting this key " help me to resolve my problem.. ...
I have followed the instructions here [MDC - Adding Extensions using the Windows Registry], but haven't been able to get Firefox to automatically install my extension when I restart it. I have written an application that is half windows service and half FF extension. I have built an installer and want it to be able to install the Firef...
My Vista Home Basic SP2 machine misses the relevant Registry values, described under Page 171 of the tutorial (latest and relevent edition) The registry keys which hold the information on which context menus to show are HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\TortoiseSVN\ContextMenuEntriesMaskLow and HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\TortoiseSVN\Con...
How to set a new path to Environment.SpecialFolder.LocalApplicationData using C# ...
Currently I use Registry Settings within the Setup Project to set the file associations and the icon for the associated files for my application. In the generic VS Setup project, the update to the registry is done always. How can I make the update to the registry conditional on the state of a checkbox dialog? ...
I am trying to check if I have write access to a specific key in the registry before displaying a form that allow the user to change some settings that are written in that key. code sanitized for clarity public bool CanWrite() { string key = @"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MyHaccpPlan, Inc.\2.0"; try { RegistryPermis...
Hello, Does anyone have a smal example of how to programmatically, in c/c++, load a users registry hive? I would loike to load a hive set some values and close the hive. Thanks in advance for any help. Tony ...
I would like to know the cleanest way of registering a file extension with my C++ application so that when a data file associated with my program is double clicked, the application is opened and the filename is passed as a parameter to the application. Currently, I do this through my wix installer, but there are some instances where th...
AssemblyName.GetAssemblyName("").Version.ToString() will give the version number ,,but i need to get version number from registry registry path is under MY computer -> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE->SOFTWARE-> leaf->monitor here current version file is there,,from there we need to fetch version number ...
<computer> <Keyboard/> <Mouse/> <HardDisk/> </computer> Here ,Assume xml as a registry ,computer is a registry key ,and it have keyboard,mouse,harddisk ,these are subkeys to computer..now can u help me ,how can enumerate a subkey from xml using MSXML and registry function...Thanks in advance. ...
I am trying to figure out if there is a location in WMI that will return the OS Architecture (i.e. 32-bit or 64-bit) that will work across "all" versions of Windows. I thought I had figured it out looking at my Win2k8 system when I found the following: Win32_OperatingSystem / OSArchitecture I was wrong. It doesn't appear that this ...
I'm working on a college system (windows XP) and want to set the keyboard to Dvorak when I log on. I currently have a python script that changes the desktop image. Can I use python to change the layout as well? Or are there other ways? ...
I am trying to modify a registry key that I have been told controls whether write-caching is enabled on particular hard drives. The key should be: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Enum\IDE\<DiskName>\<SerialNo>\Device Parameters\Disk\UserWriteCacheSetting However I keep having problems when trying to create this key (as it do...