Home/ Questions/Q 6681321
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-26T04:34:36+00:00

I’m just familiarising myself to edit registry in VB. I am having a problem

  • 0

I’m just familiarising myself to edit registry in VB. I am having a problem with changing a value in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE key. When ever I change a value at runtime it always assumes that I am going in the “Wow6432Node” key, even though I don’t put that in the parenthesis. Example: My.Computer.Registry.SetValue("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Folder\Hidden\SHOWALL", "CheckedValue", 1)
and it doesn’t change the value in the string above, but changes it as if I have put "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Folder\Hidden\SHOWALL" in the string.

The program is running as administrator.

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    That’s called registry redirection. In 64 bit Windows some registry keys (including HKLM\Software) are redirected for 32 bit applications. If you changed the build properties on your VB.NET project to x64 you would see it write to HKLM\Software. You can access the non-redirected keys using flags, but I believe those are only available for the unmanaged APIs.

    But the short answer is you not doing anything wrong, and that how it is supposed to work.

    • 0