FW: Issue using regtool on a 64-bit Windows host

Thu Aug 24 16:32:00 GMT 2006

Christopher Fay wrote:
> I am writing a PERL script to verify registry entries on a 64-bit
> Windows R2 system. It appears that when doing the regtool command
> "regtool list /HKLM/SOFTWARE/..." regtool is actually looking at
> "/HKLM/Software/Wow6432Node/...". I am unable to get the registry info
> for /HKLM/SOFTWARE. Does anyone have any ideas for this?

Use a 64-bit regtool. Um... which means you have to find a Microsoft 
version, or build your own that doesn't rely on Cygwin. That, or port 
gcc to Windows64. :-)
You could also investigate if there is a way to get around the 32->64 
indirections, but you would have to update regtool to use it.
-- 
Matthew
We are Microsoft. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. --Badtech
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