FW: Issue using regtool on a 64-bit Windows host

[Corinna Vinschen]

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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