How do I Add An application to startup avoiding wow6432node in Registry

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Im Trying to add a registry key using c# in order to my app runs on startup. But windows 7 and windows 8 are changing the path from "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run" to
"HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run" and my app doesn't run inmediately.

Used code, below:

C#

RegistryKey rlmkey = Registry.LocalMachine.CreateSubKey(@"Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run");
               rlmkey.SetValue("BiosUpdater", BUConfig.CurrentRoot + @"BiosUpdaterPL.exe");
               RegistryKey Aquiles = Registry.LocalMachine.CreateSubKey(@"Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run");
               Aquiles.SetValue("Aquiles", BUConfig.CurrentRoot + @"AquilesMonitor.exe");

How Do I Avoid this behavior?

Posted 2-Sep-14 4:31am

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Updated 2-Sep-14 5:07am

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Richard Deeming · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-02T05:34:00

It's a shame you're using .NET 3.5 - .NET 4.0 added an API specifically for this purpose:

C#

using (var hklm = RegistryKey.OpenBaseKey(RegistryHive.LocalMachine, RegistryView.Registry64))
using (var key = hklm.OpenSubKey(@"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run"))
{
   key.SetValue("BiosUpdater", BUConfig.CurrentRoot + @"BiosUpdaterPL.exe");
   key.SetValue("Aquiles", BUConfig.CurrentRoot + @"AquilesMonitor.exe");
}

If you can't upgrade to .NET 4.0, then you'll need to P/Invoke the necessary Windows API functions. There's a decent example here:
http://www.rhyous.com/2011/01/24/how-read-the-64-bit-registry-from-a-32-bit-application-or-vice-versa/[^]