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Published: **April 3, 2025 - 11:01 AM**

Good morning,
I'm having trouble accessing a specific registry:
Are you able to run this command?

 registry_readstring(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, 'SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Group Policy\\State\\Machine\\Scripts\\Shutdown\\0\\0','Script')

I always get an empty result.

The command does work on the top tree, for example

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registry_readstring(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, 'SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Group Policy\\State\\Machine\\Scripts\\Shutdown\\0','DisplayName')

Similarly, if I use reg_key_exists, the function has a specific return value:

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reg_key_exists(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, 'SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Group Policy\\State\\Machine\\Scripts\\Shutdown\\0')

Returns True

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reg_key_exists(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, 'SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Group Policy\\State\\Machine\\Scripts\\Shutdown\\0\\0')

Returns

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\wapt\waptutils.py", line 2786, in reg_key_exists
    with reg_openkey_noredir(rootkey, subkeypath):
AttributeError: __enter__

Any idea why this behavior occurs?

THANKS !
Good day,

Published: **April 3, 2025 - 11:53 AM**

Sorry, I just saw it was a permissions issue.
It works as an admin.

Published: **April 4, 2025 - 12:56 PM**

Hello Guillaume,

guigeek wrote: ↑Apr 3, 2025 - 11:53 Sorry, I just saw it was a permissions issue.
It works as admin.

No worries, it happens to the best of us

Sincerely,

Denis

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