eryksun added the comment: > register themselves in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ > Clients\StartMenuInternet so that users can change their > default browser through the OS. On 64-bit systems, this > is always in the 64-bit registry
According to "Registry Keys Affected by WOW64", the "Clients" key is redirected in Vista and shared in Windows 7. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384253 import winreg HKLM = winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE subkey = r'Software\Clients\StartMenuInternet' read32 = winreg.KEY_READ | winreg.KEY_WOW64_32KEY read64 = winreg.KEY_READ | winreg.KEY_WOW64_64KEY key32 = winreg.OpenKey(HKLM, subkey, access=read32) key64 = winreg.OpenKey(HKLM, subkey, access=read64) # This should be true in Windows 7. assert winreg.QueryInfoKey(key32) == winreg.QueryInfoKey(key64) I don't have a Vista installation to confirm that it's really redirected. If so, it's important to enumerate the WOW64 redirected key as well, since 32-bit browsers are still common on Windows. ---------- nosy: +eryksun _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8232> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
