How to gain access to a Registry Key and delete all subkeys

Dave Murphy

I need to gain access to this Registry key and delete all sub keys, but I keep getting a permission error

This is the actual Registry Key that I want to remove all the sub keys from:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\NetworkList\Profiles

This is the code that is throwing an error:

If I use this code, I get a permissions Error

RegistryKey aRegkey = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(@"SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\NetworkList", true);

If I add the profiles Key, i Get a Null reference:

RegistryKey aRegkey = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(@"SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\NetworkList\\Profiles", true);

I think I have to do something like this to get security permissions . . .

var security = aRegkey.GetAccessControl();

var rules = security.GetAccessRules(true, true, typeof(System.Security.Principal.NTAccount));

Any Help would be greatly appreciated :))

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