i need a way to open a offline registry and read the oem info from it. The registry will be from a a hdd from another pc atached to mine. What im trying to accomplish is open the offline registry and read the model/serial info on it. i am able to read the registry of the booted system but no a offline one.
View 3 RepliesI want read the below remote registry using VB.Net. "SOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionInstall erUserDataS-1-5-18Products"
View 4 RepliesI am trying to read the HKEY_USERS hive of a remote machine with this Class
Imports System.Management
Imports System.Management.Instrumentation
Public Enum RegHive As UInteger
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The value of sSubKeyName is the user's SID + "" + Network (e.g. S-1-5-21-1606980848-2025429265-839522115-560021Network). Now under that key are various subkeys containing mapped drive letters. But it never returns anything.
Strangely, if I use the OpenRemoteBaseKey method it works BUT I don't want to use that because using WMI lets me specify alternate credentials and OpenRemoteBaseKey doesn't
Error 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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I 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.
In PHP you can use fopen(Path) to read from a file. The Path can be either a local file (in the usual formats /etc/file or c:file.txt) OR it can be a URL in which case PHP will open a http connection and read from the remote location
I'd like to achieve the same in VB.Net. I'm not aware of any framework function which will achieve this.
I'm currently pattern matching the path against a Regex for a valid URL - If I get a match, I open the file using a httpwebrequest otherwise I try to use the local file system.
Private Function RetrieveBGImage() As Image
Dim Ret As Image
If Not (IsURL(_BackgroundImage) Or IsLocalFile(_BackgroundImage)) Then
Throw New Exception(String.Format("Unable to load from uri ""{0}""",
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NB: I'm aware that the logic above is inefficient and actually ends up calling IsURL() more than it has to
I have a VB .NET 2010 app that I created with a button to open the remote computer's C$ (administrative share). This code works fine with WinXP, but since upgrading to Win7, it won't open the folder.
Here's the code I'm using:
Shell("Explorer.exe \" & ComputerName & "C$", 1, False)
Remote registry access using WMI VB.Net..I just need simple example of how to access a remote registry (2000, XP) using the "System Registry Provider" (WMI) in VB.NET.
View 6 RepliesI created an in house tool in VB.net to complete my post installation steps of SQL Servers.
My tool completes all post installation steps like (Creating Database,storedporcedures,logins,logon trigger, database mail configuration, Jobs , local security policies and creating required folders and granting permissions to service account.)
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I am working on a program that needs to fetch remote windows pc's particular registry keys and then be able to modify them (for example the Run registry key). From what I have been reading I would need to use the OpenRemoteBaseKey to do so.
What I am not sure about is how do I have the program search the network for all of the Windows computers and generate a checklist when the computer names and IP addresses are not known ?
also for the OpenRemoteBaseKey to work do I have to know the password for the administrator account for each PC ?
I have made a registry entry as follows: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTMy AppShellOpenCommandAnd gave it the value: "C:Program Filesmyapp.exe" "%1" "%2"I also had a drophandler to for the apphis entry works fine for opening one file that is dragged to my app's icon. The problem is that I can only drag one file at a time into the app. If I try to drag more, it only ees the first file and ignores the others. I use the My.Application.CommandLineArgs array to access the command arguments. For example, My.Application.CommandLineArgs.Item(1) will open the file. If I change the registry entry to:"C:Program Filesmyapp.exe" "%1" "%2" "%3"This will open the first two files, but ignore the rest. If I change the registry entry to "C:Program Filesmyapp.exe" "%1" "%2" "%3" "%4"This will have the same behavior as the previous entry and ignore all but the first two files.
View 2 RepliesI'm trying to return from a webpage, the remote HKCUVolatileCLIENTNAMEHere's what I'm doing so far:
Get the Machine Name via DNS - this bit works great:
Public Shared FunctionGetMachineName(ByVal String
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I need to read the value of one subkey located under a list of 17,000 keys in windows registry. I have no problem doing it locally but cannot get the system.management name space to do the same remotely. I know MSDN documents the system.management name space but much more knowledge is assumed than in other areas I have used. Assume no problems with connection and authentication.[code]....
View 16 RepliesRequired registry access not allowed when I try to open new project. What are some solutions to this problem when running operating system Windows 7?
View 9 RepliesI need connect remote registry in xp to vista system in vb.net code.
View 2 RepliesI'm trying to write a console application that can modify registry subkeys on remote pc's in the same network. I have it working in my own environment but when I install on the customer machines I'm getting unauthorized access when it hits the OpenRemoteBaseKey. The security settings in the application properties is set to full trust application so I'm not sure why it won't work.
I'm using Visual Studio 2010 and first I just installed it on the customer machine and when it wouldn't work I ran the source code in Visual Studio 2005 which is on the customer machine but got same results.I can run the app directly on the remote machine and it will change the registry subkeys as directed, I just can't do it remotely. RemoteRegistry service is started. Both machines are logged in as administrators.
Here is the source code:
Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic
Imports System
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Security.Permissions
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Does My.Computer.Network.DownloadFile work with FTP? When I attempt to use it, I get the exception: "The remote server returned an error: (500) Syntax error, command unrecognized."
Here's the code I'm using:
Dim UpdateAddress As String = "ftp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" & lbDownload.Items(X).ToString
My.Computer.Network.DownloadFile(UpdateAddress, BasicPath & lbDownload.Items(X).ToString, "", "", True, 10000, False, FileIO.UICancelOption.ThrowException)
The FTP server is IIS6.
How to read data, submit queries from vb application to a remote machine running sql server. note: I have created a complete functional version of a stock control system with the database residing in the local machine. I just need the basic concept of interacting with remote databases that's all. Do we have to use sockets to read/send data ?
View 2 RepliesI need to Poll remote machines and list the drives they have mapped along with the path(UNC) of that mapping.So far I got some code that will allow me to Poll my machine not the remote one and instead of giving me the UNC it gave me the share name which code work but is not Ideal.
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Private Sub Button3_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles Button3.Click
Dim allDrives() As DriveInfo = DriveInfo.GetDrives()
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I've been struggling for hours now to get some working code to list the share permissions of a remote share. I've got WMI code which uses win32_share which lists the shares and path and it works great. I"m now trying to add in a routine to get the share permissions as well.I've searched just about every site for some sample code and can only find some C# (I think) code.
string machine = "MachineName";
ConnectionOptions co = new ConnectionOptions();
co.Impersonation = ImpersonationLevel.Impersonate;
co.EnablePrivileges = true;
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I'm having troubles reading the values from a registy key, basically I already have my code working which reads back data from a registry key with the name "data" however I also have another key called "data+" and when I attempt to read that the "+" get ignored and it reads back "data" which is in the same location. I have no power of changing the reg key, do I need to convert the + into hex or something like that, if so how do I that and then read it back?
View 16 RepliesI thought this was simple so i guess i am doing something wrong. want to read the value of an item in the registry.the value im after is the centralprofile key which im trying to get by passing the SID and looking up the subkey but it never returns anything.
my code
Function getprofilepath(ByVal SID As String) As String
Try
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I'm trying to implement code that can determine the value of a registry key dword value and put a check mark in the checkbox depending on if the key exist, does not exist, or equals ffffffff in hex (4294967295 in Decimal).[code]
View 4 RepliesI need to read a value (and possibly adjust the value) in HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionUninstall key on both 32 and 64 bit systems.I've tried accessing 'stuff' by compiling my widget as both a 32 and 64 bit app, but nothing is working. Then I came across some information indicating that this could be done from a 32 bit applicaiton using KEY_WOW64_64KEY [URL] somehow, but I can't figure it out.
1) Check the existing value of HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionUninstall{ProductGUID}DisplayVersion handling both architectures.
2) If the value <> "" And <> Our Current Version Then
3) Write the Current Version to the value mentioned in step 1.
I wouldn't think this is that difficult as I've worked with registry before, but the 64 bit stuff is throwing me for a loop.It would be nice if I could compile my app to target AnyCPU then detect where its running on 32 or 64 bit. The app could then look and update in the appropriate location.I currently am set to use .NET 2.0, but could go to 4.0 if there is something in there that makes the above tasks easier.
I'm trying to understand how to get a string from the registry. There are a lot of walkthroughs, and information about retrieving known strings, keys. But what about if the value changes or could be unknown? For example, I wrote some values to the registry:
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The txt1.Text information will differ so I can't say it is a definite string. The txt1.Text will be created based on information entered into the form and then it is encrypted. It will be unique to that user, but I want to compare the string in the registry key to one in a textbox on the form.
I have been following tutorial from Bort and writed encrypted string to registry with this
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Now I want to read that from registry and get the date witch is encrypted to decrypted to textbox so I can compare it to date.today. How can I get that date from registry. I have used this Tutorial: RSA Encryption in VB.NET and tried to get these trial version tutorials to work together.
What I need is a method to read the registry (completely) and then compare to another, my reasoning for this is so that I can track the changes that happen through programs to the registry so that I can make them portable so that I can code in vb.net on my flashdrive (not really) but it would be pretty useful.
View 3 RepliesI am trying to get the value of a registry key with the REG_NONE type. MSDN suggests that RegistryKey.GetValue does not support reading of this type, and the default value (Nothing) is returned instead of the actual value.
View 10 Replieshow do i read from registry, i want my program to do this once u open it it reads the registry for a number 1 means non-active 1.2 means active i its active it bring you to form 2 if not it just stays t form 1
View 6 RepliesI am trying to loop through a key to get all values. For some reason this returns nothing
Dim RegKey2 As RegistryKey = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey("SoftwareCompanyStartup")
Dim subname() = RegKey2.GetSubKeyNames
MsgBox(subname.Length)
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