writing new value to registry key

[Piotrekk]

Hi
I have accessed registry key where system path is stored:

RegistryKey myKey =
Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey("System\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Sessi­on

Manager\\Environment");


Then i'am trying to change the value:


if (myKey != null)
{
object val = myKey.GetValue("Path");
RegistryValueKind rvk = myKey.GetValueKind("Path");



val = dir + ";" + val;


myKey.DeleteValue("Path");
myKey.SetValue("Path", val);


return;
}


OpenSubKey returns key read only. I dunno how to set access to this
regkey such that is would be possible to write to it.
How to change privilages to force program to write new val to the reg?
Thanks for any sugestions
Piotr Kolodziej

 

[Cubaman]

Hello:
Yoy have and overloaded method for this, just passing a boolean
indicating if you want write acces to the key. Here is an example:

try {
RegistryKey regKey = Registry.LocalMachine;
regKey =
regKey.OpenSubKey(@"Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run",
true); // This last bool values specify write acces to registry
regKey.SetValue("SomeValue);
regKey.Close();
}
catch (SecurityException) {
throw new InstallException("You need administrator
rights to install this program.");
}

Happy coding!!

Oscar Acosta