I am trying to establish where the Oblivion install creates its Windows Registry information for various operating systems.

For example, Windows 7 64-bit: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Bethesda Softworks\Oblivion

I would very much appreciate it if people running the following Windows OS could take a look at their Registry with RegEdit and let me know the Registry path…

Windows 7 32-bit?

Windows Vista 64-bit?
Windows Vista 32-bit?

Windows XP 64-bit?
Windows XP 32-bit?

Many thanks for any help.

It's going to be in the same place on all operating systems, with the only complication being the Wow6432Node part. If you're installing on a 64-bit OS, then it'll be there. However, if you're running a 32-bit app, then the registry will be virtualized such that you won't see it. So:

64-bit OS, 64-bit app: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Bethesda Softworks\Oblivion
Anything else: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Bethesda Softworks\Oblivion

To try this out, run the copy of regedit from c:\windows\syswow64\ and compare with the results from the one in c:\windows\system32\. (yes, it's backwards: the one in syswow64 is the 32-bit version and the one in system32 is 64-bit)

Many thanks.

That is what I thought it was going to be, but I wanted to be absolutely certain so that I can rely on my code retrieving the Oblivion install path on any of the OSs in my op.