Difficulty in reading Network List and login time & logout time from the registry

[d_stranz]

I have read other keys using Qsettings , but could not do so for NetworkList available in HKLM

What have you done, and what is the debugger telling you when you ask for one of these keys? Does you account have the admin authority to read these keys?

Edit: from QSettings docs:

On Windows, NativeFormat settings are stored in the following registry paths:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\MySoft\Star Runner
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\MySoft\OrganizationDefa ults
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\MySoft\Star Runner
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\MySoft\OrganizationDef aults

This implies that you cannot access an arbitrary location in the Registry using QSettings, but only one of these four locations ("MySoft" and "StarRunner" are just example names), depending on the user's access rights and whether SystemScope or UserScope is requested.

Further edit:

Accessing the Windows Registry Directly

On Windows, QSettings lets you access settings that have been written with QSettings (or settings in a supported format, e.g., string data) in the system registry. This is done by constructing a QSettings object with a path in the registry and QSettings::NativeFormat.

For example:

QSettings settings("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\ Office",
QSettings::NativeFormat);

But this implies that you can access arbitrary keys. So I go back to my original question - what is the debugger telling you?