Error on deleting registry value

[Brian8568]

I'm doing something wrong. I'm trying to delete a registry value with
the following code VB 2005 Express:

Dim oReg As Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey
oReg =
My.Computer.Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey("SOFT WARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Run")
Try
oReg.DeleteValue("AlcWzrd")
Debug.Print("Successfully Delete Registry Key AlcWzrd")
Catch ex As Exception
Debug.Print(ex.ToString)
Finally
oReg.Close()
End Try
This fails with:

A first chance exception of type 'System.UnauthorizedAccessException'
occurred in mscorlib.dll.
Cannot write to the registry key.

I'm running this under an admin account and I can add and remove this
key in RegEdit. What am I doing wrong?

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

<Br*******@gmail.comschrieb:

My.Computer.Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey("SOFT WARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Run")

Replace "\\" with "\".

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>

[Brian8568]

I've tried both ways.
My.Computer.Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey("SOFT WARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run")
doesn't work either.

On Nov 27, 9:01 pm, "Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]"
<[e-mail]:

<[e-mail]:

My.Computer.Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey("SOFT WARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Run")Rep lace "\\" with "\".

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>

[FishingScout]

That OpenSubKey opens the key as read-only.

Try this:

My.Computer.Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey("SOFT WARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run",
True )
Br*******@gmail.com wrote:

I've tried both ways.
My.Computer.Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey("SOFT WARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run")
doesn't work either.

On Nov 27, 9:01 pm, "Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]"
<[e-mail]:

<[e-mail]:

My.Computer.Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey("SOFT WARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Run")Rep lace "\\" with "\".

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>

[FishingScout]

In addition, I think you should call DeleteSubKey rather than
DeleteValue to delete a key.

FishingScout wrote:

That OpenSubKey opens the key as read-only.

Try this:

My.Computer.Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey("SOFT WARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run",
True )
Br*******@gmail.com wrote:

I've tried both ways.
My.Computer.Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey("SOFT WARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run")
doesn't work either.

On Nov 27, 9:01 pm, "Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]"
<[e-mail]:

<[e-mail]:
>
My.Computer.Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey("SOFT WARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Run")Rep lace "\\" with "\".
>
--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>

[Brian8568]

Bingo! Thank you.

On Nov 27, 9:58 pm, "FishingScout" <[e-mail]:

That OpenSubKey opens the key as read-only.

Try this:

My.Computer.Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey("SOFT WARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run",
True )

[e-mail] wrote:

I've tried both ways.
My.Computer.Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey("SOFT WARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run")
doesn't work either.

On Nov 27, 9:01 pm, "Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]"
<[e-mail]:

<[e-mail]:

My.Computer.Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey("SOFT WARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Run")Rep lace "\\" with "\".

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>