Accessing windows registry Python

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I am stuck here trying to make a python script to access windows registry. My issue is that I get an error file not found using the following path:

"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\NetworkList\Signatures\Unmanaged"

It works until NetworkList and afterwards it just returns the error of file not found. I tried using different folders in the directory NetworkList but it gives error file not found for any of them. Using ragedit I can see that the directories that I am trying to access do exist. Any ideas?

Slavi · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-09 19:10:19Z

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Fixed it be deleting python 32 bit and installing python 64 bit, works like a charm

answered Jan 9, 2015 at 19:10

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Eryk Sun Over a year ago

For a 32-bit process, HKLM\SOFTWARE gets redirected to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node. You can set an access flag to instead use the 64-bit keys: e.g. key = winreg.OpenKey(winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, 'SOFTWARE', access=winreg.KEY_READ|winreg.KEY_WOW64_64KEY).

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