[TuToRiAl] How to Get/Edit the value of a key in the Registry (Part 2)

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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:


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".



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:



Then after setting the value to HFrox,





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