abcdgoldfish
7th December 2010 12:15 UTC

DeleteRegKey in Win7
I want to delete a registry key in Win7 but NSIS always looks in the Wow6432Node hive. For example if I have the following keys:
HKLM "Software\Product\badKey"
HKLM "Software\Wow6432Node\Product\badKey"

The following will remove HKLM "Software\Wow6432Node\Product\badKey":
DeleteRegKey HKLM "SOFTWARE\Product\badKey"
DeleteRegKey HKLM "SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Product\badKey"

Neither removes HKLM "Software\Product\badKey", which is the key I want to delete.

I have RequestExecutionLevel admin in my script. Without this no keys are deleted.

Why can't the script delete this key? Adding a backslash at the end of the key string doesn't help either, i.e., "Software\Product\badKey\".

I'd appreciate any help.

Yathosho
7th December 2010 14:02 UTC

SetRegView?

abcdgoldfish
7th December 2010 15:09 UTC

Perfect! You have saved my bacon. Thanks.

Now that I see how close SetRegView (4.9.7.6) was to DeleteRegKey (4.9.2.3) in the NSIS User Manual, it sure would have saved me time and anguish if the manual had reference links. Otherwise it's hard to find things that you don't even know you should be looking for.

Not being an ingrate. Just looking for ways to improve the awesomeness that is NSIS.

Afrow UK
7th December 2010 16:17 UTC

You are welcome to submitting a patch.

Stu