Re: Windows Registry

The "SUMMARY" section in the following article explains you everything.

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

- - - -
Although Visual Basic includes the SaveSetting and GetSetting functions to 
save and retrieve information from the registry, these functions only 
operate on a specific section of the registry, the Visual Basic and VBA 
Program Settings of the HKEY_CURRENT_USER root key.

This article outlines the use of 32-bit Windows API functions, which can be 
used to set and retrieve values from anywhere in the registry. The topics 
and function references in this article can be generalized to program the 
16-bit registry.
- - - -

Whereas the Adobe Acrobat installation path can be found in the following 
registry location, which is outside the limits of "GetSetting" function.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App 
Paths\AcroRd32.exe]
The (default) contains the application path.

See also:

Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) - MSDN Forums:
http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/showforum.aspx?forumid=74&siteid=1

-- 
Regards,

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


"Friedi" <Friedi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
news:945F6D91-3277-4C2C-B79D-4BF27421500A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thank you very much for your reply.  I am not familiar with API and think
with the articles you pointed out I have a lot of study to do.

Just please precise what you mean me to do :

Quote ' Get the Path from here:
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App
> Paths\AcroRd32.exe '
End Quote

Is this to program with VBA 'getsetting' or with an API function?

Thanks
Friedi
-- 
Friedi


"Ramesh, MS-MVP" wrote:

> 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/
>
> -- 
> 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
> -- 
> Friedi
>
>
> 


.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Windows Registry
    ... Is this to program with VBA 'getsetting' or with an API function? ... > the registry reserved for VBA applications. ... you must use the Windows API. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: Windows Registry
    ... Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User] ... How To Use the Registry API to Save and Retrieve Setting: ... Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) - MSDN Forums: ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: [Full-Disclosure] PLEASE QUIT YACKING ABOUT M$
    ... on in order to get the 5% exploits within a single post, or all posts. ... >> simply another API. ... >> registry editor, in fact, the classes I put together treat them both very ... > from the filesysem, in Windows, you need to learn the filesystem API ...
    (Full-Disclosure)
  • RE: [Full-Disclosure] M$ - so what should they do?
    ... > simply another API. ... > registry editor, in fact, the classes I put together treat them both very ... And before you say you *can* configure apps by directly editing the ...
    (Full-Disclosure)
  • Re: Calling Still Image API in C#
    ... It appears that you are calling the API correctly. ... the interface in C# should be correct. ... recommending that you remove the registry key for your registered ...
    (microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.interop)
Loading