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c#windowswindows-server-2008
Nitin Bourai
Nitin Bourai

Reputation: 458

Unable to get product Id in windows 2008 server

i want to use ProductId of windows machine so i have written this code but this code is unable to get the ProductId from the registry when running on windows server 2008 when i have visited registry the ProductId is there in Registry 

string[] names = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(@"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion").GetValueNames();
foreach (string s in names)
{
  listBox1.Items.Add(s);
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 756

Answers (2)

Cicero
Cicero

Reputation: 11

I found out the reason this happens. It's because your program is 32-bit and your system is 64-bit. 32-bit programs access the 32-bit portion of the registry, and this key is not present in the 32-bit portion, which is located in:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion

Compile your program in 64-bit and it's will work.

Upvotes: 1

Oded
Oded

Reputation: 499002

Make sure the account this code is running under has permissions to read from the registry (or at least that location in the registry).

Upvotes: 0

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