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How do you read a REG_BINARY value from the registry using VB?

In all my VBA work, I generally only retrieve string values from the registry or simple REG_DWORD values. I really don't know how to decode the binary values. Does it require a Windows API call if I'm not using .NET?

Please note: This question has already been answered by BlueDevilFan and I'm posting here so that other people can find it and so that I can award him/her the points.

Please don't bother answering this unless you are BlueDevilFan.

Thanks!!!!

Tim Jeffryes

Ark

Private Sub Command1_Click()
Dim wshShell As Object
Dim arrData, i, sData
Set wshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
arrData = wshShell.RegRead("HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams\Desktop\Default TaskBar")
'Now arrData contains a VBArray of integers with members equal to byte sequence in registry key
For i = 0 To UBound(arrData)
If sData <> "" Then sData = sData & " "
sData = sData & Right("0" & Hex(arrData(i)), 2)
Next i
Debug.Print sData
Set wshShell = Nothing
End Sub

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tjeffryes

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thanks, Ark, for your response. It looks nearly identical to BlueDevilFan's, but as I noted in my positing, I had already "pre-rewarded" him the points.

thanks everybody.

Tim Jeffryes