Re: Open with... .reg extensions
From: Alan Edwards (edwards_at_southcom.com.au)
Date: 04/10/05
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Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 19:38:54 +1000
Hi Jim,
Thanks for the heads up on our web page. I will ask someone to fix it.
I am afraid I can't answer your question on the updating as I have no
idea why you expect just changing HKCR\logfile from Text Document to
Text Log to achieve anything but then you give me no idea of the
significance of Text Log.
I also don't have XP and also have no idea what Randy Birch is trying
to get you to do.
The Registry usually changes immediately for me but for any change
that is not immediate, I usually refresh it in Win9x by
Start-Shutdown-Cancel.
Perhaps a post to a Win XP group?
In microsoft.public.security, "Jim Carlock" <anonymous@localhost>
wrote:
>Thanks again Alan.
>
>Your homepage has the following bad link. Microsoft probably
>changed it to an .aspx page.
>http://support.microsoft.com/directory/content.asp?ID=FH;EN-US;oex
>
>http://support.microsoft.com/directory/?ID=FH;EN-US;oex will fix it.
>
>I've noticed that you can just drop the page name up to the question mark
>to fix some bad links.
>
>One other question I have. I'm messing around looking at the .ext to find
>the default value (for .log, it is logfile), then I'm going into the logfile key
>(HKCR\logfile) and looking at the default value there, which provides
>the Type column string in Explorer. When I change the name, for logfile
>it was listed as "Text Document" and I changed it to "Text Log", it takes
>a couple hours for the change to go into affect. It's like the registry is
>holding the information, but doesn't update Explorer.
>
>Randy Birch provided the following things to try but they've all failed:
>
>Call SendMessageTimeout(HWND_BROADCAST, _
> WM_SETTINGCHANGE, _
> ByVal "Registry", _
> 0&, SMTO_ABORTIFHUNG, _
> 1000&, success)
>and if the above didn't work...
>Call PostMessage(HWND_BROADCAST, WM_SETTINGCHANGE, 0&, ByVal 0&)
>
>Would you know which API could be called to force Explorer to re-read
>the registry and update itself? It really looks like the system is saving the
>information in a cache file somewhere and it's taking a couple hours for
>explorer to get a refresh from the cache.
>
>This is kind of off the topic of the Open with .reg extensions, but it was what
>I was messing with when I started to mess with some .reg files.
>
>Thanks again.
>
>--
>Jim Carlock
>Please post replies to newsgroup.
>
>"Alan Edwards" <edwards@southcom.com.au> wrote:
>Jim,
>
>I don't have XP installed but I assume there are similarities with
>previous systems. If you want to start again and keep track, then try
>a System Restore or Scanreg /Restore from a DOS boot or whatever XP
>does to restore a day old Registry.
>The two keys affected in Win9x are:
>HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.reg
>and the key it points to
>HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\regfile
>Export them to text files before and after you make the changes.
>
>...Alan
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