April 22, 2000

Const HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = &H80000002′ Return information about the Bios (NT only)” Requires the GetRegistryValue routineSub GetBiosInfo(BiosDate As String, BiosVersion As String) ‘ These keys appear to exist only on NT

Private Declare Function GetVersion Lib “kernel32″ () As LongConst HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = &H80000002′ Modify the name of the registered user and organization” Requires the SetRegistryValue functionSub SetRegisteredUser(ByVal UserName As String, Optional

Const HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = &H80000002′ Information about the CPU’ you can pass a number 1 to the last argument to retrieve’ information on all the processors in a multi-CPU system” Returns

Const HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = &H80000002′ modify the value of a setting for the VB IDE from the Registry’ Important: only works with VB6” New values are effective when VB is restarted”

Const HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = &H80000002′ Get the path of a Windows application’ or an empty string if the application isn’t registered” this routine only works for those applications that register’ themselves

Const HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = &H80000002′ read the name and path of the external HTML editor’ configured for the VB environment” Requires the GetRegistryValue functionFunction GetExternalHTMLEditor() As String ‘ Note that the

Const HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = &H80000002′ get the list of ODBC drivers through the registry” returns a collection of strings, each one holding the’ name of a driver, e.g. “Microsoft Access Driver