Editing the Virtual Registry

AdminStudio 2023 | 25.0 | Virtual Package Editor

The Registry view enables you to define registry keys, values, and data for your App-V package. This view also lets you configure isolation options for selected registry keys. Isolation options indicate how the isolation environment provides access to system resources that the application needs: you can choose to override one or more keys on the client system, or you can choose to create a merged view of one or more keys for the virtual environment.

Note that the registry entries that are configured in the Registry view affect only the application in your App-V package. They do not affect any other App-V packages that are streamed to the Application Virtualization Client, and they do not affect any products that are installed to the client system.

Keys, Value Names, and Value Data

The registry consists of machine data and user data. A key is a named location in the registry. A key can contain subkeys, a default value, and named values. A default value is a value without a name. All other values associate a name with some data: the value name identifies where to store it, and the value data is the data in that storage.

Note that the terms key and subkey are relative. In the registry, a key that is below another key can be referred to as a subkey or as a key, depending on how you want to refer to it relative to another key in the registry hierarchy.