Thread: How do we read the registry before. NET?

Hello everyone,

It is quite common when developing in Windows to get together to make simple things that seem not needed the cavalry. Read the frequency of the processor, read an item in the registry.

But with the mechanism for recovering information on the Internet, the techniques of the past are often replaced, obscured by modern techniques.

I think these as well as other easy solutions but necessity. NET 1 2 3 ... etc. yes, the solution often takes a few lines, but where the lib that comes with it is 40 MB and even in static, CA is nag.

And I wonder how it was time for Windows 95-98 ...

The query brings me post on the registry. I would like to create a simple code that will be planned as a bootstrap, so I intended the 50-200 kb but will read the registry.
And so I just wonder how you would do with win98 to play a key ...

The walkthroughs on internet dating. NET 1 but I do not know if I can in the static linker at lower cost.

Before. NET was used functions of the Win32 API, written mostly in C, including all clique functions RegXXX

So to play a key under W98:

- RegOpenKeyEx to open the key
- RegGetValue to read
- RegCloseKey to close the key

Thank you very much for your response.