Just remove the # sign, leave only [INSTALLLOCATION] and it should work. The # symbol referes to file keys. Without the # it refers to a property and all directories become properties. See the article about Formatted data type for more details.
You can pipe the creation line to the New-ItemProperty line as follows, but be aware that the -Force flag on New-Item will delete any pre-existing contents of the key: New-Item ‘HKCU:\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\EdgeUI’ -Force | New-ItemProperty -Name DisableHelpSticker -Value 1 -Force | Out-Null
RegistryKey.OpenSubKey(string) does not open the key for writing. Try using the OpenSubKey(string, bool) overload to specify that you want the key to be writable.
This depends somewhat on your exact needs. If you are writing a C# app and simply want to set the default proxy settings that your app will use, use the class System.Net.GlobalProxySelection (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.globalproxyselection.aspx). You can also set the proxy for any particular connection with System.Net.WebProxy (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.webproxy.aspx). If you actually want to update the proxy settings … Read more
You can use Send To for this. It supports multiple files. In case this website goes offline: Open shell:sendto with Windows + R or paste it into your explorer address bar. It should redirect you to: C:\Users\<yourusername>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo Create a shortcut to your program in this folder and you should see it in your explorer right-click … Read more
Take a look in: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\ and the sub-key of that is the extension you reassigned. Under that there will be the UserChoice and OpenWithList sub-keys which will contain your redefinition. You may also want to read http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950505 which talks about your issue. Update As of Windows 8, life has gotten far more complicated. To create … Read more
It looks like a package with that name was already published by someone else, so you’d need to use a different name in your package.json file and then npm publish again. Else, you can look if you’re trying to publish the same version that’s already published.
@Franci Penov – modify is possible in the sense of overwrite with /f, eg reg add “HKCU\Software\etc\etc” /f /v “value” /t REG_SZ /d “Yes”
It’s been a while I did reg hacks, but something like this could work: RegistryKey myKey = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(“SOFTWARE\\Company\\Compfolder”, true); if(myKey != null) { myKey.SetValue(“Deno”, “1”, RegistryValueKind.String); myKey.Close(); }
There is an MSDN article here which suggests that you just move the projects to a new directory. However, as you mentioned, the list of projects is kept in the registry under this key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\<version>\ProjectMRUList and the list of recent files is kept in this key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\<version>\FILEMRUList Note For Visual Studio 2015: The location has … Read more