Check For Registry Changes?
Dec 7, 2010Is there an easy way to check for a change in the registry, i.e an application has been added to startup in the registry or a key/value was changed?
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Check If Registry Key Exists?
Feb 23, 2010I need to figure out if a registy key exists under the HKCU hive. If the key exists do this, if not then this.
View 6 RepliesCheck To See If Registry Key Exists
Sep 15, 2006I am trying to figure out how to check if a registry key exists. If it does, do nothing, if it doesn't, recreate it.I've found numerous resources on the subject, and have made progress, but one little thing is stoping me.[code]The problem is that this reports "Not Found", even though the key 'regkey' exists in the registry. Also, if I remove 'regkey' from the code, it reports "Found". So it does find the subdirectory in the registry.My question is, how do I check to see if the 'regkey' exists? I'm running Windows XP Pro SP2.
View 19 RepliesCheck Byte Data Of A Registry Value?
Feb 18, 2010How to check the data inside this value anyone ?
View 10 RepliesCheck If Data Already Exist In Registry Value Or Not
Jan 22, 2010I created a form with a checkbox and my purpose is if data have already existed, the checkbox will show a check when it launch however i am very new to VB( First time actualy). i google to find the answer but the best solution just tell me to use RegQueryValueEx, unfortunately,i don't know axactly how.
View 12 RepliesCheck If Registry Folder Is Deleted Or Not?
Dec 26, 2011I have created a folder and a sub folder within it and trying to check if the folder exists or not in the registry editor.This is how I have Created:
Dim kstrRegSubKeyName As String = "CompanyName\SoftwareName"
Dim oReg As Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey
oReg = Microsoft.Win32.Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey("Software", True)[code]....
Now I need to check if that CompanyName Folder is deleted or not and display a message.
Registry - How To Check If Node Exists
Oct 12, 2011I know what instruction to use to check a subkey exists within a node, I can't find how to get VB.Net to check if a node itself exists. Besides the standard My.Computer.Registry.GetValue(), this page mentions using "Imports Microsoft.Win32" followed by "registryKey.OpenSubKey" to check that a subkey exists, but is there a way to check that node exists?
View 1 RepliesVS 2005 - Check For Registry Subkey?
Sep 9, 2009I need to check for a registry cubkey I know how to check for an empty value but not if the subkey is missing In particluar this key
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here is code that i have for checking an empty registry value for instance a registry value named run. So if the key RUN has no value it returns true on the checkbox. Im not sure how to modify this code to check for an entire subkey as there is other subkeys where the one above is contained.
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Check The Registry Permission Of Subkey Programmatically?
Jan 25, 2009I want to check the Registry Permission of Subkey programmatically.Whether the Subkey has Read permission,Write Permssion, Delete Permssion.
View 1 RepliesFile I/O And Registry :: Check If Folder Is Writable?
Oct 25, 2008I want to save a bitmap object to file, but I want to make sure the file path is writeable first. The user should have write permissions to the folder and it should not be a location on a CD drive.Right now, it gives a "A generic error occurred in GDI+", which is not too helpful. I'd rather tell the user that the selected save location is not writeable.
View 6 RepliesUse VB To Check Folder Locations And Registry Entries?
Apr 6, 2011I want to create a simple program that runs in the background that every few minutes checks to see if any additions to the "startup folders and or the registry entries that run programs. How do I make the value of these folders or registry entries variables?
View 1 RepliesCheck Local Format On Form_load And Change It To En-us Via Registry If Any Other Is Preset?
Feb 19, 2011Is it possible to check locale format on form_load and change it to en-us via registry if any other is preset?
View 5 RepliesVS 2008 WPF Registry Edit Auto-Start // Check Admin Privileges?
Apr 29, 2011I'm having trouble getting my app to auto-start by adding a registry key. The problem it is having is checking if the user has admin privileges. I tried setting the thread principal, because before it would always return false when I tried My.User.IsAuthenticated, but when I check if My.User.IsInRole("Administrators"), it still returns false, even when it should return true.Here's my current code. This worked fine without even setting the thread principal when I was just creating a regular Windows Form.
AppDomain.CurrentDomain.SetThreadPrincipal(New Security.Principal.GenericPrincipal(New Security.Principal.GenericIdentity("UserName"), Nothing))
If My.User.IsAuthenticated Then
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File I/O And Registry :: Open / Read Binary File / Care To Check Code?
Jun 14, 2009I've gone through about 16 hours and two packs of cigarettes trying to figure this out. First a little background. I was using 6.0 up until 2004 when I went to prison. I'm out now, and trying to relearn the trade, using VS 2005. I'm currently porting some 6.0 code from another project, SpyCast Webcam Studio, into VB 8.0. It's disheartening, to say the least. None of the old built-in subs/functions work anymore, so I have to scour the forums to relearn each and every function.The section I'm doing now takes a snapshot from the webcam (Video API --> PictureBox --> Save as Jpeg), then upens the file to upload it to the server via HTTP POST. I've been using this code in SpyCast for years with no trouble, but I spent many hours trying to piece together the right code to open the binary file to read its contents. I pieced together two methods I found around the forums, one using FileStream() though the code I found wasn't for binary files, even though it said it was, so that code doesn't really work. Method two uses Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileOpen() and works better.
Here's the kicker. By the time I run through the rest of the rigamarole of uploading the file, by the time I read it on the webserver, it's *slightly* corrupted. It's a valid Jpeg, no errors, but the picture looks like when I use to watch the Playboy Channel when I was a kid scrambled with weird colors and whatnot. [code] Each "chunk" is basically one "line" of the file. It looks like a single LineInput() return is the text between two carriage returns. Am I correct? I tested this with a flat text file, and it looks true. However, That one input line returns the text or data with the carriage returns *stripped*! ***?!? =( Fine, I have no problem adding my own vbCrLf to each LineInput(), if I were opening text. but this's binary. A character could be Chr(10) or Chr(13), both of which are removed from the original file contents.So I could very well need to use something other than LineInput(), but I haven't found any other examples on the web using this method.
File I/O And Registry :: Check If A Certain File Is In Text Or Binary Format?
Mar 13, 2010how I could check if a certain file is in text or binary format?I'm using VB.Net 2008 Express.
View 2 RepliesFile I/O And Registry :: When Is File Ready For Using - Check Or The File Is Total Copied ?
Dec 6, 2010Our program will start with the help of a FileSystemWatcher object. How can we check or the file is total copied, for example the file is 100 Mbyte it take a time it's ready for use. Idea:
Do While True
Try
N = testForUse(BigFile)
If N = 1 Then Exit Do
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File I/O And Registry :: Error Is Coming Registry Access Is Not Allowed.While Opening A Key
Jan 21, 2009Error is coming Registry Access is not allowed.While Opening a Key.
Code:
Private Sub Button3_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button3.Click
NewDelete("HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun", "Sonia")
End Sub
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File I/O And Registry :: Writing (Default) And Dword(binary) Entries To Registry
Jan 31, 2009I've had a bit of a look around the net and on the forums but I've yet to find an answer to my question. I've got Visual Basic 2008 Express and I'm trying to write some registry entries, I can write strings fine just using
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File I/O And Registry :: Email Accounts Stored In Registry
Jul 14, 2011Currently, I am try to get the email addresses that have been saved or stored by the user of the computer. This isn't the emails that the user has sent or received, or the contacts he/she has in his address book. Just simply the email accounts that have been accessed from the computer.I know that there are some locations stored in the registry that have the email account. The email addresses that are used on the current computer. I just can't seem to find them on my computer.I am not sure if the registry is the only place to find it or if it stored on the web browser such as internet explorer or google chrome.
View 1 RepliesFile I/O And Registry :: Reading Multiple Keys From The Registry?
Aug 27, 2008I am writing an application that connects to a specific com port. This com port can change depending on how many physical ports are on the PC, and if other USB devices have installed com ports before this one.
I have the communication to the com port all working great, but I need to get the com port description not just the "COM#" which is all I currently get.
I found in the registry where the description is stored but am having trouble doing what I need.
In this key:
Code:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMControlSet001ControlClass{4D36E978-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
there is a varied number of sub keys. The are numbered 0000-NNNN depending on how many ports you have. Inside each of these keys, there are multiple values, although I am only interested in one or 2 of them.
My problem is, that I do not know how to get a list of the subkeys (the 0000-NNNN keys/folders) from the original key I posted. I have looked through a few registry tutorials, and I can view the default value in the listed key, but I could not find how to list the subkeys of the listed key.
Does anyone have any sample code they could share that shows how I can get a listing of subkeys, and then run through those subkeys checking for a specific value in one of the strings contained in the subkey?
I am using VB.net 2008 and Windows XP.
File I/O And Registry :: Can't Read / Write To Registry
Jan 21, 2012I have several programs that must write to HKLM in XP and Windows 7/64 Pro.The programs work in VB6 but not in VB.Net 2008 on target machines. It does works on our development machine. [code]I just cannot figure out why VB6 works but .net doesn't and fails only on the target machine not the development machine.
View 2 RepliesFile I/O And Registry :: Change Permissions Of A Registry Key
Mar 16, 2010How can I change the permissions of a registry key. I want to allow anyone in the "Users" group to be able to write to "SOFTWAREMyApp".
View 2 RepliesRegistry - Get Every Single Registry Name And Value, Which Lies In HKEY_CURRENT_USER?
Dec 2, 2011I want to get every single registry Name and value, which lies in HKEY_CURRENT_USER....Run(for getting and THEN deleting them to prevent run those programs at windows start). This is just for getting names.
Imports Microsoft.Win32
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click[code].....
Well, this isnt working, when i run it in the vb and click button, it says system missing member exception: IWshShell3 hasnt been found.
Use The Registry Section In Inno Setup To Add A Registry Key?
Feb 11, 2010Does anyone know how to use the registry section in Inno Setup to add a registry key that make a program start with windows when a Checkbox is checked in the setup wizard? If anyone know please step forward. I am getting near the launch of a program and it would be nice to include this feature.
View 5 RepliesVS 2008 Write To The Registry And Read From The Registry Using .net?
Mar 23, 2010how do i write to the windows registry and read from the registry?i'm using windows 7 - 64 bits, and visual studio 2008.
View 1 RepliesFile I/O And Registry :: Change Value In Registry?
Oct 17, 2009I need to be able to change a line in the regisrty an am not sure how to go about it, i have searched but nothing i can understand at the moment.
Code:
HKCU,"SOFTWAREMicrosoftInternet ExplorerDesktopGeneral","Wallpaper",0x00020000,"%SYSTEMDRIVE%WebDreamSceneBeach.html"
The part in bold is the part i need to be able to change as i am having to write a little program to change the background on the desktop.
I should be ok once i know more on how to do things like this.
File I/O And Registry :: Writing To The Registry?
Oct 27, 2010I just bet the answer to this question already exists, however I saw no search mechanism under the forum. Anyhow, I would like to change registry data, and this code is asking for an instance to the object.
Dim RegKey As RegistryKey = My.Computer.Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey("HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwa reAnyDWGSoftwareDWGtoPDFProSettings", True)
RegKey.SetValue("OutputPDFFileOpt", 1)
Finally, I want to apply this setting to the program on four different computers (local, and three others on the network).
Registry Values Not Being Added To Registry?
Aug 4, 2011I wrote an application to manage several installers and I wanted to throw in some registry settings as well. Unfortunately the following code is not writing to the registry, nor is it returning any exceptions.I'm running Visual Basic 2010 Express as administrator using Windows 7 64 bit, I can manually add the values, and I can add them from a .reg file manually but not even by calling the .reg file as a new process (it asks for permission, says it succeeded, but nothing changed).The key already exists, all I need to do is add two values.
My.Computer.Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey("SOFTWAREMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMAINFeatureControlFEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION", True)
My.Computer.Registry.SetValue("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMAINFeatureControlFEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION", "uwgm_client.exe", 32768, Microsoft.Win32.RegistryValueKind.DWord)[code].....
File I/O And Registry :: Registry Entry Found/not Found Messages?
Aug 13, 2011Currently I am using this code to check for Firefox on a 32 bit machine
Code:
Dim Firefox32 As String
Firefox32 = My.Computer.Registry.GetValue _
("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMozillaMozilla Firefox 5.0in", "PathToExe", Nothing)
MsgBox("The value is " & Firefox32)
If the value is found then the above message is fine, but if the entry is not found I want it to display a message like: "Firefox could not be found" instead of "The value is: " What code would make this appear?
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VB: Getting Checkboxes On Windows Form To Check If Their Values In A Database Field Is Check (True)
May 10, 2011This is my problem.I have a field set up in MS Access to Boolean YES/NO, this field is populated when the user check a checkbox on a windows form. If the user check a checkbox, the value is written as checked in the data field (MS Access).The problem is when I search for the user information, I need the information from the Data base to populate(return) to the windows form. Example: If I enter a users phone number and the user data is present, the form gets populated with the information the user previously entered which was store in the database.Example: If the user selected checkbox1 and submits the form. When I search for the user info, the check box should check(populate) because the user had checked it on submit.Here is what I have done:
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I am getting the check value correctly in the database using a Boolean.Here is one of the errors I am getting. Unable to cast object of type
'System.Boolean' to type 'System.Windows.Forms.CheckBox.I am having trouble putting the codes in a code tag or block