node-winreg

node module that provides access to the Windows Registry through the REG commandline tool

Installation

The following command installs node-winreg.

npm install winreg 

If you prefer to install without the development tools used to generate the HTML documentation (into a production environment for example) you should use the following command.

npm install winreg --production

Note that the development dependencies will not be installed if this package was installed as a dependency of another package.

Documentation

The documentation is generated using jsdoc with the docstrap template. You can view the API documentation online, download the latest documentation or generate it from the sourcecode.

Online Documentation

View the latest docs online.

Download Documentation

To download the latest docs from GIT the following command is used.

npm run-script download-docs

Generate Documentation

To generate the docs from the sources you can use the following command.

npm run-script generate-docs

Note that generating the docs requires the development dependencies to be installed.

Example Usage

Let's start with an example. The code below lists the autostart programs of the current user.

var Registry = require('winreg')
,   regKey = new Registry({                                       // new operator is optional
      hive: Registry.HKCU,                                        // open registry hive HKEY_CURRENT_USER
      key:  '\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Run' // key containing autostart programs
    })

// list autostart programs
regKey.values(function (err, items /* array of RegistryItem */) {
  if (err)
    console.log('ERROR: '+err);
  else
    for (var i=0; ichcp (w/o parameters). To set a new codepage (UTF-8 for this example) you pass the codepage number as the only argument to <code>chcp</code>. The codepage value for UTF-8 is 65001.

You can easily do this from within your nodejs script by using the <code>child_process.execSync(...)</code> function like the following example shows.

```javascript
var execSync = require('child_process').execSync;
console.log(execSync('chcp').toString());
console.log(execSync('chcp 65001').toString());

An even better approach would be to extract and store the value returned by a call to chcp prior setting the console to UTF-8 and resetting the codepage after your script is done.

License

This project is released under BSD 2-Clause License.

Copyright (c) 2016, Paul Bottin All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

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