You could try the registry logging functionality of Sysinternals Process Monitor, and log what registry activity is actually happening.
More information and download from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx Ross Levis wrote: > I hope someone can help. > > I have an app where the installer sets an XP compatibility mode registry > entry during installation. Don't ask why but it is generally required. > > As the app loads after installation, it checks some hardware requirements to > see if XP compatibility mode needs to be switched off. If so, the registry > entry is deleted and the program then needs to be restarted, which I want to > do automatically. > > I have a helper app which I load just before terminating the main app. The > helper app then reloads the main app after a 2 second sleep. > > However, the result is that the program is still loading in compatibility > mode even though the registry entry is deleted well before it loads. > > I have LazyWrite disabled on the registry change, so it is instantly > updated. I tried a massive 15 second sleep in the helper app, so the main > app is closed for 15 seconds before reloading, yet it still loads as if the > registry entry is still there. > > If I terminate the app and load it manually, then it's always correct! I > don't understand this. Why would loading the app manually be any different > to loading it from another app? > > I'm using CreateProcess with CREATE_NEW_PROCESS_GROUP to load the helper app > and to load the main app again. I tried ShellExecute with no difference. > > Is there some way to make this work automatically? > > The only method I can adopt at this stage is to popup a message to ask the > user to load the program manually, which is not user friendly. > > Many thanks, > Ross. > > _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
