Reading and writing registry values that are not there in Vista.

[terryastone]

I have an application that reads some registry values stored in the
Local Machine\Software\... key.

In XP, I can see these values using RegEdit. In my application I can
read the values at startup, and change the values during the
application.

In Vista, I CANNOT see the values using RegEdit but I can read the
values using the application. I created some values using RegEdit in
the place where my values would be. Now I can see them using RegEdit,
but my application is reading the previous values. From where?

It's like there is some alternate registry in Vista that cannot be
seen, but my application sees it.

Any ideas?

Terry.

 

[Jeff]

Terry

Have you done a search of the registry for your key or value. Maybe
Vista is saving it somewhere else because you may not have security
rights to the place you are saving it to.

Regards
Jeff

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

On Dec 12, 9:56 am, (e-mail address removed) wrote:

It's like there is some alternate registry in Vista that cannot be
seen, but my application sees it.

Yes, it's called Registry Virtualization:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa965884.aspx

Jon