RegistryTreeChangeEvent class

The RegistryTreeChangeEvent class represents changes to a key and its subkeys. For more information about using the WMI registry event classes, see the Modifying the System Registry section. For code examples, see the WMI Tasks: Registry topic.

The following syntax is simplified from Managed Object Format (MOF) code and includes all inherited properties. Properties and methods are in alphabetic order, not MOF order.

Syntax

class RegistryTreeChangeEvent : RegistryEvent
{
  string Hive;
  string RootPath;
};

Members

The RegistryTreeChangeEvent class has these types of members:

• Properties

Properties

The RegistryTreeChangeEvent class has these properties.

Hive

Data type: string

Access type: Read-only

Name of the hive that contains the key (or keys) that is changed. For example, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. Changes to the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT and HKEY_CURRENT_USER hives are not supported by RegistryEvent or classes derived from it, such as RegistryTreeChangeEvent.

RootPath

Data type: string

Access type: Read-only

Path to the registry key that contains the subkeys. For example, "SOFTWARE\Microsoft".

Remarks

Queries that provide a RootPath must have backslashes escaped. For example,

wmiServices.ExecNotificationQuery("SELECT * FROM RegistryTreeChangeEvent " _
    & "WHERE Hive='HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE' AND RootPath='SOFTWARE\\Microsoft'")

Registry provider classes, unlike most of the Win32 classes are located in the WMI root\default namespace.

Examples

The following example waits for changes in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE hive using semisynchronous access. It runs until the Wscript.exe process is stopped in Task Manager. The 64-bit TIME_CREATED property is converted to a printable date by SWbemDateTime methods. For more information, see Calling a Method.

The following script runs until the computer is restarted, WMI is stopped, or the script is stopped. To stop the script manually, use Task Manager to stop the process. To stop it programmatically, use the Terminate method in the Win32_Process class.

wbemFlagReturnImmediately = 16
wbemFlagForwardOnly = 32
IFlags = wbemFlagReturnImmediately + wbemFlagForwardOnly

Set wmiServices = GetObject("winmgmts:root/default") 
Set dtmCreateTime = CreateObject("WbemScripting.SWbemDateTime")

Set colRegChanges = wmiServices.ExecNotificationQuery _
    ("SELECT * FROM RegistryTreeChangeEvent " _
    & "WHERE Hive='HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE' AND RootPath='",, IFlags)

Do While (True)
   Set TreeChange = colRegChanges.NextEvent

'Time_Created property is 64-bit and
' must be converted into CIM_DateTime format
   dtmCreateTime.SetFileTime TreeChange.Time_Created, false

'Convert to VT_DATE format using GetVarDate
' for printing to screen
   Wscript.Echo "Time = " & dtmCreateTime.GetVarDate() _
              & VBNewLine _
              & "Hive = " & TreeChange.Hive & VBNewLine _
              & "RootPath = "& TreeChange.RootPath    
Loop

Requirements

See also

RegistryEvent

Registering for System Registry Events