Re: [Oorexx-users] Accessing Windows registry problems on W7 SP1, 64 Bit

[Mark M. <mie...@gm...>]

I was going to reply, but from your next post, it seems you have it figured
out?

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Mark Miesfeld



On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Rony G. Flatscher
<Ron...@wu...>wrote:

>  Stumboled over the following problems when trying to interact with the
> Windows registry on a 64 bit Windows 7, SP 1, machine (German):
>
>    - It seems that the WindowsRegistry class is not able to supply access
>    to HKLM, i.e. local machine. The respective attribute is not set. This
>    seems to happen with both, the 32 and the 64 bit ooRexx versions.
>
>     - When using the "regRead" method fo an OLEObject of type
>    "WScript.Shell" the following problem occurs:
>
>     - ooRexx 32-Bit: cannot read any keys in the registry of that 64-bit
>       W7 machine, as an OLE error is raised with an error message that the root
>       of the key cannot be found.
>       - ooRexx 64-Bit can read those keys.
>
> Now, I seem to remember (but am not sure as this is more than two years
> ago) that it was possible to use a 32-bit ooRexx on a 64-bit Vista and W7
> system to read and write registry entries.
>
> In theory, it should be possible to use 32 or 64 ooRexx to interface with
> the registry. Maybe I am missing something obvious?
>
> ---rony
>
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