Write a registry entry¶

This action lets you write information directly into Windows registry; for example to set initial options for your program or store information about the package's execution, such as the user’s name or the destination directory. Storing this kind of information in Windows registration database makes it easy for your program to access it later.

Property Name	Data Type	Description
Access	regaccess	Request access to the 32-bit or 64-bit Windows Registry view. Please refer to the paragraph entitled Accessing an Alternate Registry View. Default is `regaDefault`
AddUninstRef	Boolean	Indicates whether the registry entry should be removed by the uninstaller or not. By default it is true.
Ident	String	The named entry within the registry key. Leave this field blank to read the default value associated to the key.
Key	String	The key name of the registry entry. Like `SOFTWARE\My App`
RootKey	hkKeys	The base key of your registration entry. There is a defined set of Base Keys from which you can choose in the list box.
Value	String	This is the data contained by the named entry. You can use variables such as `%DESTPATH%`
ValueType	regType	Paquet Builder supports working with four types of registry entries: string (REG_SZ), dword (REG_DWORD and REG_QWORD) and expanded strings (REG_EXPAND_SZ). Choose the type in the list.
Volatile	Boolean	Marks the registry key as volatile (default, false)

Note: all values are automatically overwritten. Be sure that you won't overwrite important information.

Example:

To create the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\MyCompany\MyWordPad and set its AppPath entry to the location where your software was installed:

Select hkCurrentUser for the Rootkey and type Software\MyCompany\MyWordPad for the Key.
Add AppPath to the Ident entry
Set ValueType to REG_SZ
Finally enter %DESTPATH% (the variable which contains the final destination folder) in the Value field.

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