Deleting registry keys containing specific values

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Hi all,
I am designing an utility in which I need to delete all the registry key values containing a specific word in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\

But I am not having any idea, that, how to iterate through these registries..

Please help.

thanks in advance.

Posted 24-Feb-12 18:30pm

djrocks0101

Updated 24-Feb-12 18:40pm

Аslam Iqbal

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Аslam Iqbal · Answer 1 · 2012-02-24T18:43:00

Solution 1

Try this: Read, write and delete from registry with C#[^]

Posted 24-Feb-12 18:43pm

Аslam Iqbal

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djrocks0101 25-Feb-12 0:56am

I have gone through it, but the problem is, how do I iterate through all subkeys in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE containing a specific word in its name or value.

Аslam Iqbal 25-Feb-12 1:10am

Just add an enumerator ( foreach ). I didn't try this code. Please try yourself.
.............
RegistryKey rk= baseRegistryKey;
...
rk.OpenSubKey("your keyword");
foreach (var k in rk.GetSubKeyNames() )
{
//..............................
}

ProEnggSoft 25-Feb-12 1:51am

Good link to article. Hence my 5!

djrocks0101 27-Feb-12 5:43am

But how do I search all registry keys with specific string..because I am not having any idea, that how many times do I need to iterate..and here if I use the code above, the nesting of loop will increase and increase the time complexity as well..
please help..