Writing to the registry error

[juanbolas]

Hello,

I'm trying to use some code I found to write a value to the registry. The 'TestRegistry' sub gives me an error when it tries to write the registry key by calling the 'RegKeySave' function.

The error is:

Run-time error '-2147024893 (800700003)
Invalid root in registry key
"Computer\Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\LDPTest"

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\LDPTest

Can you help me fix the error?

Thanks in advance

 

[gravanoc]

Hello,

I'm trying to use some code I found to write a value to the registry. The 'TestRegistry' sub gives me an error when it tries to write the registry key by calling the 'RegKeySave' function.

The error is:

Run-time error '-2147024893 (800700003)
Invalid root in registry key
"Computer\Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\LDPTest"

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\LDPTest

Can you help me fix the error?

Thanks in advance

I'm not positive since I don't fool with the registry too often, but my best guess is that it's referring to the beginning or root of your path. Maybe Computer\ is generic & you need to change it to reflect your actual system's registry path. Everything after Computer\ should be ok though.

 

[johnnyL]

Actual code you are trying to use will be more helpful than the Original post.

 

[Tetra201]

@ juanbolas:
For a WScript.Shell object, registry key and value names must start with a hive name, not with a "Computer\".
So, try passing to your function just "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\LDPTest" as the key name.

 

[juanbolas]

Thank you!