Hi Vikas,

this is not true. HKLM/System is shared/same but HKLM/Software/<some subkeys> is redirected or "reflected" how MS says. Please read and understand all provided links to MS knowledge base.

At the moment I have no 64-bit system to check but I'm pretty sure the problem is somewhere else. I use OO-style access to the Win32::TieRegistry object like this

my $registry_obj = $Registry->Connect( $hostname, $registry_key, { Acc
+ess=>'KEY_READ' } )
      or do {
          $log->error("access to [$registry_key] on host [$hostname] f
+ailed");
        return;
        };
      $registry_obj->SetOptions( SplitMultis => 0 );
      $registry_obj->SetOptions( FixSzNulls  => 0 );
      $registry_obj->SetOptions( ArrayValues => 0 );
      $registry_obj->SetOptions( DWordsToHex => 1 );
}

...

foreach my $registry_subkey (  $registry_obj->SubKeyNames() ) {
    something;
}
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but I don't think it makes any difference. regards willi