How to delete a registry value in C#
To delete the value set in your question:
string keyName = @"Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run";
using (RegistryKey key = Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey(keyName, true))
{
if (key == null)
{
// Key doesn't exist. Do whatever you want to handle
// this case
}
else
{
key.DeleteValue("MyApp");
}
}
Look at the docs for Registry.CurrentUser
, RegistryKey.OpenSubKey
and RegistryKey.DeleteValue
for more info.
To delete all subkeys/values in the tree (~recursively), here's an extension method that I use:
public static void DeleteSubKeyTree(this RegistryKey key, string subkey,
bool throwOnMissingSubKey)
{
if (!throwOnMissingSubKey && key.OpenSubKey(subkey) == null) { return; }
key.DeleteSubKeyTree(subkey);
}
Usage:
string keyName = @"Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run";
using (RegistryKey key = Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey(keyName, true))
{
key.DeleteSubKeyTree("MyApp",false);
}
RegistryKey registrykeyHKLM = Registry.LocalMachine;
string keyPath = @"Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\MyApp";
registrykeyHKLM.DeleteValue(keyPath);
registrykeyHKLM.Close();