Re: Windows Registry

Get the Path from here:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App 
Paths\AcroRd32.exe

Why Use VBA to Call the Windows API?:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/modcore/html/deovrwhyusevbatocallwindowsapi.asp

[Excerpt]
For example, VBA provides functions that read from and write to a portion of 
the registry reserved for VBA applications. You can use these functions - 
GetSetting, GetAllSettings, SaveSetting, and DeleteSetting - to maintain 
information about your application between sessions. However, these 
functions permit you to work with only one subkey in the registry, namely 
the \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VB and VBA Program Settings subkey. If you 
want to store or to retrieve information from any other part of the 
registry, you must use the Windows API.

[/Excerpt]


How To Use the Registry API to Save and Retrieve Setting:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q145679/

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


"Friedi" <Friedi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
news:CFCC9166-E9D7-4F63-8AD3-34C50A9345F7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Using the 'GetSetting' Function in VBA (We work with Access 2002/2003) we
only get info from the Windows Registry within the section 'VB and VBA
Program Settings'.
We would like to get info of a setting - by means of VBA Code- of the actual
path of an Acrobat Reader installed on a computer.  On my machine for
example,the actual path is:
c:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader. On my 2nd machine, Acrobat is
installed on D: and is version 6.
How do we have to program with VBA to get this information out of the
Windows Registry?

Can anybody help?
Thanks
Friedi
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Friedi 


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