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Hello everyone, your tutorial guru, legitwaste here...

Today we are going to learn how to edit and read a registry key, extremely simple, unless you want to make it complicated for yourself lol.

WARNING: You Must Be Running the Application as an Administrator if you are using Windows Vista/7, XP Users need to use this technique
only when accessing the LOCAL_MACHINE.

Now add 2 buttons and 2 textboxes to your form so that they look like this:
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Now for the coding.

As usual we must import ms.win32

Code:
Imports Microsoft.Win32

Public Class Form1

Next we will edit the code of "read a value" a.k.a. Button1.

We are trying to find and then edit the value of the string, Test. As you can see the value is "SupportForumsRocks".

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Lets see if we can make it work.

Code:
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

        TextBox1.Text = Registry.GetValue("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment\", "Testing", "")

    End Sub

It works!

Now for the second button a.k.a. Edit the value, in vb known as "set".

Code:
Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click

        Registry.SetValue("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment\", "Testing", TextBox2.Text, RegistryValueKind.String)

    End Sub

Now the results should be like this:

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Then after setting the value to HFrox,

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And that is how you are able to read and edit the value of a registry key.

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