Hkey_current_user Windows 10

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Anthony Small

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Aug 3, 2024, 5:53:00 PM8/3/24

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When launching a 32bit application in 64bit environment, some of your paths will be relative to wow6432node. Things might get a little unexpected if you try to find something you thought was in HKLM\Software when in fact it is located at HKLM\Software\wow6432node. To overcome this the arch methods were added.

This software uses Windows Script Host to read and write to the registry. For that purpose, it will execute .wsf files. When packaging the app's dependencies with ASAR, node-regedit will not be able to access the windows script files, because they are bundled in a single ASAR file. Therefore it is necessary to store the .wsf files elsewhere, outside of the packaged asar file. You can set your custom location for the files with setExternalVBSLocation(location):

In the windows registry a key may have a default value. When enumarting value names, the default value's name will be empty.This presents a minor problem when including the empty value in a set with other values since it cannot be safely named with anything but the empty string, for fear of collision with other values.

Same as regedit.list([StringArray], [Function]) exposes a streaming interface instead of a callback. This is useful for situations where you have a lot of data coming in and out of the list process. Using the streaming interface is also important when trying to fetch a large amount of keys from the registry, as it overcomes the limitation of passing data as a command line argument.

Lists the values of one or more value keys (or paths as I like to call them) without expanding any embedded environment variables.Specify an array instead of a string to query multiple keys in the same run.

When including a default value in a putValue operation, one must use the REG_DEFAULT type. Further more, the name of the value is insignificant since in the registry the default value has no name, but because of the way the node and the vb processes communicate a name must be used. Please note that the only legal value type of a default value is REG_SZ