Registry values

[Rhyono]

What would keep you from viewing a value (error code -1) and can/how do you get past that problem?

Here's where I'm encountering the problem:

$a = RegRead("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography", "MachineGuid")
MsgBox(0,'',$a & " " & @error)

[wurmz]

It failed for me as well, but when I changed it to a 64 bit key, it worked. Are you using a 64bit machine?

$a = RegRead("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE64\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography", "MachineGuid")
MsgBox(0,'',$a & " " & @error)

[Rhyono]

Yeah, but I viewed other values just fine that way. Which is what causes me to not understand why it works for some but not others. Especially since I used regedit to view it using the path I mentioned.

Your response still allowed for a simple workaround, though. Thanks.

Edited December 30, 2012 by Rhyono

[wurmz]

This may work better for you:

If @OSArch = "X86" Then
$kLM = "HKLM"
Else
$kLM = "HKLM64"
EndIf


$a = RegRead( $kLM & "\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography", "MachineGuid")
MsgBox(0,'',$a & " " & @error)

Props where props are due:

[Rhyono]

That's what I already ended up doing. Thanks though.