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Re: FW: Issue using regtool on a 64-bit Windows host
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:49:05 +0200
- Subject: Re: FW: Issue using regtool on a 64-bit Windows host
- References: <86A3089001A44141B76B882059E7E53B01A608BF@M31.equallogic.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Aug 24 11:26, Christopher Fay wrote:
> I am writing a PERL script to verify registry entries on a 64-bit
> Windows R2 system. It appears that when doing the regtool command
> "regtool list /HKLM/SOFTWARE/..." regtool is actually looking at
> "/HKLM/Software/Wow6432Node/...". I am unable to get the registry info
> for /HKLM/SOFTWARE. Does anyone have any ideas for this?
The registry access functions require an additional access flag
KEY_WOW64_64KEY to be able to access the 64 bit registry view from a 32
bit application, and RegDeleteKey must be replaced by RegDeleteKeyEx
on 64 bit systems. Neither of these are imlemented in regtool so far.
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC
http://cygwin.com/contrib.html
Corinna
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