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I have found some great advice and tips digging through these forums. Really helpful when you aren't a programmer.

Here is my issue. We have a piece of software that applies updates to systems. It verifies if the updates are intended for the system, then verifies the updates have been applied...either through file version or registry entries. This program was written by someone else at my company and it has now become my responsibilty. Yea. :oops:

I have gotten around the regread/regwrite issue on 64bit systems by specifying hklm64, khcu64, etc when needed.

I have (kind of) gotten around the system32 vs syswow64 on 64bit systems by adding something similar to this:

If @OSArch = "X64" Then DllCall('kernel32.dll', 'int', 'Wow64EnableWow64FsRedirection', 'int', 0) ; do somthing here if os is 64 bit DllCall('kernel32.dll', 'int', 'Wow64EnableWow64FsRedirection', 'int', 1) Else ; do somthing here if os is 32 bit EndIf

Both of those solutions were found on these forums...many thanks to whomever posted them!

My question is...is it possible to build a function that checks whether the OSArch is x64, if it is, then it will disable the Wow64FsRedirection, AND automatically converts hklm (or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE)to hklm64? (this would also apply to HKCU, HKU, and HKCR)

Any assistance is greatly appreciated. These forums have been a great help!

The program is a 32bit program, and the powers that be don't want to have a seperate 64bit version. They also want to procedures to be the same whether it is run on x86 or x64 systems, hence the question on the registry.

Mark

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It looks like you are half way there with the example you provided. Just put it into a function that is called at the begging of the script. You could have a global var that could store which HKLM is appropriate using the same func.

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here is a bit of a tip that I won't explain.

just use hk**64 regardless of whether or not it's 64 bit. that will be handled properly on 32 bit.

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here is a bit of a tip that I won't explain.

just use hk**64 regardless of whether or not it's 64 bit. that will be handled properly on 32 bit.

Hmm, good to know.
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