Why can't I properly read 32bit registry values in HKCU on 64bit machine?

Question

I\'m stumped on a windows 7 registry problem and while various questions and answers get me some of the way there, nothings I\'ve seen addresses my particular issue. I don\

Answer 1

I understand from the comments on the question that this issue has gone away, for anyone else that encounters this question, you can use Microsoft.Win32.OpenBaseKey to specify whether to open the 64 or 32-bit portion of the registry when running on a 64-bit machine even if your process is running as a 32-bit process.

If you always want to access the keys in the NON-WOW6432Node section of the registry, then you can safely set the View parameter of OpenBaseKey to RegistryView.Registry64. This will work correctly on both 64 and 32-bit OSes.