I tried to write a registry subkey and its corresponding value to registry like this:
const string subKey = @"SOFTWAREAppleBanana";
const string regKey = "pip";
var rk = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(subKey);
if (rk == null)
rk = Registry.LocalMachine.CreateSubKey(subKey);
var rv = rk.GetValue(regKey);
if (rv == null)
rk.SetValue(regKey, "XXX");
return rv.ToString();
Now the problem is that I when I look in the location manually (via regedit) I cannot see the folder SOFTWAREAppleBanana
in HKLM
.
But when I run the above code again and debug, I can see that both Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(subKey)
and rk.GetValue(regKey)
yields the before saved values. Yet I do not see the values in the given location via regedit. So on searching the registry, I can see the above keys and values in following locations:
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareClassesVirtualStoreMACHINESOFTWAREAppleBanana
HKEY_USERSS-1-5-21-44266131-1313801407-2392705078-1000SoftwareClassesVirtualStoreMACHINESOFTWAREAppleBanana
Under both which the values remain exactly as I saved. So I realise this is from where my app reads the value though in my code I call it from HKLMSOFTWAREAppleBanana
..
Why is this happening? Is it related to access rights issue?
Is this expected behaviour? In the sense, this value is very important to me, so I am just knowing if there is some risk associated with auto-relocation!
Is there a proper way of writing to registry so that it remains in its exact location..
My account is administrator one, and I am using 32 bit windows 7.
Edit: As I came to know, the registry entry is stored in current users location rather than HKLM. And when I query for the reg value from a different account, I do not get the value. In short, no point in first of all saving it to HKLM :(
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