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Asked: 2026-05-24T21:41:49+00:00

Now this is a simple question. It should be clearly documented in MSDN. I

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Now this is a simple question. It should be clearly documented in MSDN. I looked but I couldn’t find it. The only thing I got was that I had to open subkey after subkey after subkey to get to the particular key I’m interested in.

Surely there is a more direct method to access a key 3 levels deep. What is it?

I’ve already tried

RegistryKey reg = Registry.LocalMachine;
reg.OpenSubKey(@"Software\Microsoft", true);  // reg is still HKLM !

and

reg.OpenSubKey(@"Software\Microsoft\", true); // reg is still HKLM !
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  1. Editorial Team

    I think you are expecting the OpenSubKey() method to do something to reg – somehow to make it point to the sub key. It doesn’t work that way. OpenSubKey() returns a new object of type RegistryKey which can be used to retrieve the value of, or modify, the sub key. So you need:

    RegistryKey reg = Registry.LocalMachine;
RegistryKey subKey = reg.OpenSubKey(@"Software\Microsoft", true);
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