Top "Registry" questions

The Windows Registry is a database where configuration settings for hardware, software and the Windows operating system itself are saved.

Magento - Mage registry key "_resource_helper/core" already exists

I'm migrating a magento 1.6.1 installation on my staging server, but I'm still getting the error Mage registry key "_resource_helper/…

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How to decide where to store per-user state? Registry? AppData? Isolated Storage?

When should the Windows Registry be used for per-user state, and when should we use the filesystem, particularly the user's …

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How to register "custom tool" with Visual Studio 2017 or Visual Studio 2019 to make it work?

Background: We have a custom tool which takes the xml input and generates the cs output. A custom tool needs …

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Registering .Net COM DLLs without Admin rights / regasm

Recently, I wrote a class library in C# for use in Office applications, including a critical Access application used by ~70 …

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Notepad++ right-click to open file in a new window

How can I configure Notepad++ to open a file in a new window when I right-click it and select Edit …

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StructureMap and scanning assemblies

So, I have a .NET solution that uses StructureMap, and I'd like to have StructureMap read an outside assembly that …

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C# loop through the registry searching for keys containing certain text

Is it possible to go through the registry and copy the names of all keys found with a certain text? …

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How can a 32-bit program read the "real" 64-bit version of the registry?

I'm trying to read HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run with OpenKeyReadOnly, and GetValueNames, but it's returning values from HKLM\…

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Disable debug prompt on application crash

Question: I need to disable the console application's crash debug prompt. Background: We've got an application that syncs info with …

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Detecting Visual Studio license type / distribution channel

There is plenty of information throughout the net on how to detect Windows license type and distribution channel using PID (…

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