[Ghoulish Delight]

Wow, I thought I'd written a response to your post.

If it has been identified as, the info in the link you gave should have done the trick. Did it work?



Now my question. I don't really expect anyone to know the answer to this, it's rather esoteric, but I'm hoping for one of those moments of, 'Oh fvck, while writing it out I realized the key thing I've been missing.' Because this is driving me nuts.

I'm using a python library (_winreg) to read values from the windows registry on Windows 2008 R2. It's a very straight forward thing to do. Basically, open a connection to the registry [e.g. reg=Connect(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE)], then open a connection to a specific key [e.g. key=(reg,'SOFTWARE\\Emulex)]

So, here's what's driving me bonkers.

I am trying to reference a key that's under the HKLM\SOFTWARE key. as in my example above. It won't let me. It says it doesn't exist. But when I look at regedit, it's there. Here's the crazy part. If I look at regedit, I see the following:

HKLM
-SOFTWARE
--ATI Technologies
--Classes
--Clients
--Emulex
--Microsoft
--ODBC
--Policies
--RegisteredApplications
--Tarma Installer
--Wow6432Node

But, if, using the python library I connect to HKLM\\SOFTWARE, list all of the keys that are under it, all I get is:

'Microsoft'
'ODBC'
'Python'
'Classes'
'Clients'
'Policies'

WTF? Why can I only see those 6?! Where the fvck are the other 10??

Also pissing me off is the fact that this works just fine on 6 other systems, including another Windows 2008 R2 system.

And, of course, the one person here that I know could help me is out for Tet until Monday. Grrrrr.