Copy and Rename Registry Keys

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using Microsoft.Win32;

// RenameRegistryKey � Copyright 2006 Active Computing
namespace RenameRegistryKey
{
    public partial class Test : Form
    {
        const string _testRootKeyName = "copyRegKeyTest";
        const string _testRootKeyNameRenamed = "copyRegKeyTestRenamed";

        public Test()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void cmdRunTest_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            DialogResult result = MessageBox.Show("We are going to add keys to your registry and then rename them.  Do you want to continue?", "RenameRegistryKey Test", MessageBoxButtons.YesNo);

            if (result == DialogResult.Yes)
            {
                CreateRegistryKeys();
                MessageBox.Show("If you open your registry editor (Start->Run type in regedit) You will see we added a new key called:" + Environment.NewLine + "copyRegKeyTest" + Environment.NewLine + "located under HKEY_CURRENT_USER.  Next we will rename it.");


                DoTheRename();
                MessageBox.Show("If you refresh you registry editor (press F5) you will see the registry key has now been renamed to: copyRegKeyTestRenamed");
            }
            else
            {
                MessageBox.Show("You decided not to run the test.  No changes made to your registry.");
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Sets up the test by creating registry keys that we will rename.
        /// </summary>
        private void CreateRegistryKeys()
        {
            RegistryKey currentUserRootKey = Registry.CurrentUser;
            RegistryKey testRootKey = currentUserRootKey.OpenSubKey(_testRootKeyName, true);
            if (testRootKey == null)
            {
                //test key doesn't exist so create it.
                testRootKey = currentUserRootKey.CreateSubKey(_testRootKeyName);
            }

            //Add some values
            string valName = "Create Date";
            object testValue = System.DateTime.Now;
            RegistryValueKind valKind = RegistryValueKind.String;

            testRootKey.SetValue(valName, testValue, valKind);

            valName = "Name";
            testValue = "Your Name";
            valKind = RegistryValueKind.ExpandString;

            testRootKey.SetValue(valName, testValue, valKind);



            //Add a sub key
            RegistryKey subKey = testRootKey.CreateSubKey("MyFirstSubKey");

            //Add more values to our sub key
            valName = "Pet";
            testValue = "Ralph the dog";
            valKind = RegistryValueKind.Unknown;

            subKey.SetValue(valName, testValue, valKind);
        }

        public void DoTheRename()
        {
            RegistryUtilities ru = new RegistryUtilities();
            ru.RenameSubKey(Registry.CurrentUser, _testRootKeyName, _testRootKeyNameRenamed);
        }
    }
}