You could use Magic, I suppose. Barring that, the only thing I can think of would be to use an external tool that could read the registry (the Cygwin toolchain comes with such tools) and invoke it using Runtime.exec(). Unless someone else has written a Windows-registry API which itself uses JNI on your behalf.
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