Retrieve Registry Value (Unexpanded)

[Bunce]

Hey there gang.

I'm wanting to return the actual values of the registry keys in the User
Shell Folders key.

An example of a value stored in one of these keys would be:
"%USERPROFILE%\Application Data"

and I would like to actually return the following when querying it:
"%USERPROFILE%\Application Data"

However, when returning these values using the code below (VB.Net), it
resolves the %USERPROFILE% variable, and returns its correspnding value, eg:
"C:\documents and settings......\Application Data"

Reading through the docs it says the string can be returned in three
available 'categories':

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String values can be represented as the following categories:
* sz: Data is represented as a null-terminated Unicode string value.
* multi_sz: Data is represented as an array of null-terminated Unicode
strings.
* expanded_sz: Data is represented as a null-terminated Unicode string with
expanded references to environment variables.
*********************************************

But I see no way of specifying the sz format..

Code is as follows:

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Dim USF As RegistryKey =
Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey("Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders")

PrintKeyValues(USF)

Private Sub PrintKeyValues(ByVal rkey As RegistryKey)

' Retrieve all the value names for the specified key.
Dim names As String() = rkey.GetValueNames()

Dim icount As Integer = 0

Console.WriteLine("Values of " & rkey.Name)
Console.WriteLine("-----------------------------------------------")

' Print the contents of the array to the console.
Dim s As String
For Each s In names
Dim sv As String = rkey.GetValue(s).ToString
Console.WriteLine(s & ": " & sv)
Next s
Console.ReadLine()

End Sub

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Any ideas?

TIA,
Andrew