With files, c:\windows\..\autoexec.bat will point to c:\autoexec.bat.
Unfortunatley, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\..\ will not point to
H_L_M\software.

Can somebody suggest a way of opening the up one level key in the Registry?

TiA

If anyone knows an easier solution I'd appreciate to know:

uses
  SysUtils, Registry;

function OpenParentKey(caReg: TRegistry; baCloseOpenKey: Boolean =
True): Boolean;
var
  slPath: string;
begin
  slPath := caReg.CurrentPath;
  slPath[Length(slPath)] := #0;  { Get rid of a possible trailing
backslash }
  Delete(slPath,StrRScan(PChar(slPath),'\') - PChar(slPath) + 1,MaxInt);
  if baCloseOpenKey then
    caReg.CloseKey ;
  Result := caReg.OpenKey(slPath,False);
end;

Gerhard

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