Vista - Help with vbs script

For the purpose of the academic discussion, mayayana I tested both of
your suggestions. Neither works in this case. I beleive your code to
be fully sound, the problem appears to be within Windows 7 not allowing
access to these keys.

I just tried it and both worked fine on Win7,
but actually I'm not surprised. I installed the
32-bit version. So the problem is probably with
the 64-bit Registry rather than with any permission
issues. Which might also explain what you're
seeing. If it were a permissions problem you should
be able to read all of HKLM, I think, but write to
none of it. But with a 64-bit problem you might
very well have the parent key present without the
child key you're looking for, or vice versa, even though
that result appears wrong.

The Win64 Registry is a very funky thing. As I
understand it, there are really two Registries, for all
practical purposes. The 64-bit Registry is seen by
64-bit processes, while any 32-bit program gets silently
dumped into the new "Wow6432Node" key, which is
essentially the 32-bit Registry. So there can be both
32-bit and 64-bit programs running, and they're
both actually accessing a different Registry! (One
Registry tree in structure, but two Registries in
practice.)

With the API there seems to be a way for 32-bit
software to override that problem. There's some info.
here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...29(VS.85).aspx

Also, there's apparently a way using WMI to switch
between 32-bit and 64-bit Registries, if desired. I
don't have anything 64-bit to try it on, but it looks
like it may be feasible to write a WMI test, running
in a 32-bit process, that checks the keys of both
Registries.... though it looks like a clunky solution:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...67(VS.85).aspx

It's unfortunate that MS hasn't updated WScript.Shell
for the 64-bit Registry, but word is that while WSH will be
supported for the life of Win7, at least, no further updates
are planned.

Regretfully neither link seems to resolve the issue of reading these
keys on Windows 7 x64, however I don't want to hijack the OPs thread.
I'll continue to investigate and share results when I've made progress.