playing with windows registry(2) ...help!!

[malayaj]

hello friends,
In my earlier thread i think I was too general ,
To be specific...This is new one.
My Problem is that-
I have a Software ABC which is installed on my computer.
I am developing a component for that s/w in VC++ using MFC in which i need
the whole path of exe of that software where it is installed on that system from windows registry at run time.
How can I do this ?

pl. reply asap...

Regards
malayaj

 

[Cagliostro]

Do you have any troubles, or you want just a registry encyclopedia? John Fill

ivfmd@mail.md

 

[chiph]

malayaj -

First of all, you need to know where the value you seek (the path to the ABC.exe) is stored in the registry. Once you have that, you can then use the RegOpenKey, RegQueryValue, and RegClosekey functions to retrieve the value.

If you have the ability to make changes to your ABC.exe, you can have it write it's location into the registry at a known location. Typically, this would be HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\vendorname\key name

Chip H.

 

[ZakiMaksyutov]

Also you can:
#include <atlbase.h> // in stdafx.h

and use CRegKey class.
For more information see MSDN.