Tim Golden wrote: > On 26/04/2010 23:56, Tim Roberts wrote: >> Mike Driscoll wrote: >>> ... >>> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\UserInfo >>> >>> I tried to use the base64 module to decode it, but I must be doing >>> something wrong. Does anyone know of a good way to get and set this >>> information? I am dealing with users on Windows XP and Python 2.4 >> >> ??? The strings in there are not encoded in any way. They are >> plaintext Unicode strings. They happen to be identified as REG_BINARY, >> but that's just a silly accident. > > On my (WinXP SP3, Office 2003) machine, they look to be utf16-encoded > strings (null-terminated):
Exactly. They are really just REG_SZ, although they set the type as REG_BINARY for their own inscrutable reasons. -- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
