Access Visual Studio 2017’s private registry hive

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To manually review, you can use the regedit.exe application to load the privateregistry.bin file by doing the following:

  1. Launch RegEdit.exe
  2. Select the Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE node in the left-hand pane
  3. Select the File | Load Hive… menu item, and load the privateregistry.bin
  4. When prompted for a key name, just type in something like “VSRegHive”
  5. This will load the data into a VSRegHive under the HKLM node
  6. When finished exploring, be sure to select the VSRegHive and select
    File | Unload Hive… , before exiting the RegEdit.exe utility, otherwise
    VS will fail to start. Keeping the hive loaded in regedit creates some
    sort of lock that prevents DevEnv.exe from launching.

To programmatically access the key RegLoadAppKey is indeed your best bet.

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