unsupported hive error on putValue()

[alexcroox]

So I have the following in an attempt to allow Windows 8 to auto start a nodewebkit app that has to run in sysadmin mode (not without asking the user first and warning them of the risks of course...)

 var keyPath = 'HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Policies\\System';

    regedit.list(keyPath, function(err, result) {
        console.log('Registry results', result);
        console.log('Registry errors', err);

        if(!err) {

            var keys = result[keyPath];

            if(typeof keys.values.EnableLUA !== "undefined") {

                console.log('Found LUA!', keys.values.EnableLUA.value);

                regedit.putValue({
                    keyPath: {
                        'EnableLUA': {
                            value: 1,
                            type: 'REG_DWORD'
                        }
                    }
                }, function(error) {
                    console.log('Updating registry', error);
                });

            } else {
                console.log('Failed to find policy system');
            }
        } else {
            console.log('Failed to find any registry values');
        }
    });

And the putValue() errors out with code: 25122 message: "unsupported hive"

I know the path is correct because it correctly reads the value of it before it tries to modify it.

[alexcroox]

Ah my fault, putValue has to have a string for the path (even though keyPath in my example is a string).

regedit.putValue({
                    'HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Policies\\System': {

worked for me

[mantasmarcinkus]

For clarification if anyone gets this error it is because you tried to set key of a JSON object with a variable

var registryKey = 'HKCU\\SOFTWARE\\myApp';
regedit.putValue({ registryKey: { ... });

which would generate JSON object:

{ registryKey: { .... } }

if you want to have your registry key to get value for registry key from a config of some sort, do this (ES6):

var registryKey = 'HKCU\\SOFTWARE\\myApp';
const registryValue = {[registryKey]: {
        key: {
          value: 1,
          type: 'REG_DWORD',
        },
      }};

regedit.putValue(registryValue);