Welcome to the fourth part!<\/p>\n
Before I continue with this part, I can’t stress enough that you have to stay extremely focused when deleting stuff from the Registry. One small mistake such as a typo and you could end up having to reinstall your entire PC.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n So like I said, this part will handle the deletion part. It’s obvious that when you don’t use a program anymore you don’t want to have Registry entries for it.<\/p>\n As in the previous parts, we’ll need to import the namespace and declare the oRegKey variable:<\/p>\n Now that we have those, we’ll have to define what subkey to work with:<\/p>\n From this point on it’s fairly simple. You have 2 ways to go about this:<\/p>\n I’ll handle the easiest and most commonly used way: “Delete the subkey and it’s values”:<\/p>\n *NOTE: If you have another subkey within your primary subkey, then you’ll have to use a slightly different command. I’ll explain this in a bit.<\/span><\/p>\n If you run that the entire subkey and it’s values will be deleted.<\/p>\n Now let’s say we have our primary subkey called “MyApp” and within that subkey we’ve created another subkey called “Data”.<\/p>\n The subkey will look like this: “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\MyApp\\Data\\…”<\/p>\n If we use the method I just explained, you won’t be able to delete the subkey at all. So we’ll have to invoke a slightly different command:<\/p>\n *NOTE: This approach also works if you have a primary subkey with no other subkeys within that subkey!<\/span><\/p>\n That’s all there is to it. You’re now able to delete stuff from the Windows Registry \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n <\/a> – Continue to Part 5<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome to the fourth part! Before I continue with this part, I can’t stress enough that you have to stay extremely focused when deleting stuff from the Registry. One small mistake such as a typo and you could end up having to reinstall your entire PC. So like I said, this part will handle the … Continue reading Working with Windows Registry in VB.NET \u2013 Part 4: Deleting from the Registry<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dirk.schuermans.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dirk.schuermans.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dirk.schuermans.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dirk.schuermans.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dirk.schuermans.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dirk.schuermans.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"https:\/\/dirk.schuermans.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dirk.schuermans.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dirk.schuermans.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dirk.schuermans.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nProceed to summary of this post<\/a><\/p>\n'Import correct namespace\r\nImports Microsoft.Win32\r\n\r\n'Declare variable within procedure\r\nDim oRegKey As RegistryKey<\/pre>\n
'Define what subkey to work with:\r\noRegKey = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(\"SOFTWARE\", True)<\/pre>\n
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'Delete the entire subkey and it's values\r\noRegKey.DeleteSubKey(\"MyApp\")<\/pre>\n
'Delete the entire subkey and any possible subkeys of our primary key\r\noRegKey.DeleteSubKeyTree(\"MyApp\")<\/pre>\n
\nPOST SUMMARY<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n'Import correct namespace\r\nImports Microsoft.Win32\r\n\r\nPublic Sub fnDelete()\r\n\t'Declare variables\r\n\tDim oRegKey As RegistryKey\r\n\r\n\t'Define subkey to work with\r\n\toRegKey = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(\"SOFTWARE\", True)\r\n\r\n\t'Delete our subkey\r\n\toRegKey.DeleteSubKeyTree(\"MyApp\")\r\n\r\n\t'Close the RegistryKey\r\n\toRegKey.Close()\r\nEnd Sub<\/pre>\n