Create Registry Key Default Value

[Pitbull]

Ok, there is something I am missing here. I'm creating a registry key in my installation project for the install path. This works great... except that I need my string value name to be the default in the registry. So, if I look in my registry, I have (default) with no value and Path with my value. How do I fill in that (default)?

[.paul.]

try this. it changes the default value in the windows calculator section of the registry in vista x64. the method is the same for any default registry value:

Dim rk As Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey = Microsoft.Win32.Registry.CurrentUser
Dim regShell As Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey = rk.OpenSubKey("Software\Microsoft\Calc", True)
regShell.SetValue("", your value here)

[chris128]

How do I fill in that (default)?

You dont. That (Default) value is only there as a legacy thing, you shouldnt ever need to do anything with it. If you want to store something in the registry then create your own value for it, I dont see why you would want to stick it in the default value (which isnt actually named "(default)" - that is just the name that regedit shows you)

[Pitbull]

Paul, thanks so much for replying. That's good info but I was hoping to do it during installation. More ideas or is there not a way? Chris, my company has a program reading app paths from the registry. A great deal of existing app paths only have a default value and nothing else so it's reading the default value. Seems there are a great deal of installs out there that are filling in that default value or default would never have a value. I wanted to make sure my program was following suit with the already existing entries in my registry.