Re: Component for bulk Registry adds

From: Landon Cox (landon_at_mindfab.com)
Date: 02/03/04 

Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 12:21:10 -0700

BTW - I bought RegSnap based on this recommendation as it really seemed like
it had what would be needed - a registry diff ability to write out a .reg
file of the differences.

I have found two pretty horrendous bugs with it. One, regardless of my
comparison settings for generating .reg files from the comparison (redo and
undo .reg files) to include keys and values, only keys are generated in the
.reg files. This completely defeats the ability to pull registry diffs out
in any semblance of useful format. It generates HTML reports which are
correct, but obviously not usable for importing/restoral.

Secondly, if I export a RegSnap .rsnp file as a .reg file, many times keys
will have a redundant 'leaf' on the key name that is not there in the
original registry. ie: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\TOC\TOC] when the
origional registry only had: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\TOC]

So, if you were to restore the registry with this .reg file, it would be
completely hosed up.

I've tried contact LastBit software by both email and phone. NO response by
email and their phone seems to be permanently hooked to a FAX.

This software is so close but yet so far. Thought people might like to know
this.

Landon

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