It's got pretty good search and filter features. I've waded through hundreds
of thousands of lines in a very short time with well-formed queries...
Somewhere in there, regsvr is launching something and doing something else.
You'll find it...

***********************
Charlie Kaiser
[email protected]
Kingman, AZ
***********************  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 8:00 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: Help with /regserver
> 
> I have, and I can't seem to find anything out of the 
> ordinary. I may give it another go tomorrow with a 
> finer-toothed comb...
> 
> 
> 2009/8/18 Charlie Kaiser <[email protected]>
> 
> 
>       Install Process Monitor on the machine running the app 
> (or a clean machine
>       with the app installed) and watch what it does. It 
> should detail the exact
>       calls to registry, file system, and network resources. 
> You should be able to
>       identify exactly which DLLs, exes, and registry calls 
> you need to modify the
>       security on (or point to their app and say "it's broke").
>       
>       ***********************
>       Charlie Kaiser
>       [email protected]
>       Kingman, AZ
>       ***********************
>       
> 
>       > -----Original Message-----
>       > From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]]
>       > Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 7:46 AM
>       > To: NT System Admin Issues
>       
>       > Subject: Re: Help with /regserver
>       >
>       > Hehe...I doubt anyone has worked with it, it's a horrible car
>       > wreck of an application called Universal Housing marketed by
>       > a company called Civica. Their own support teams are useless,
>       > and because we have a virtual Citrix farm with AppSense and
>       > mandatory profiles, they just blame our environment for any
>       > problems they can't solve.
>       >
>       > According to them, the switch "registers uhm.exe so that w2
>       > bof can access it". When I pressed them to explain this
>       > gobbledegook further, I was met with a wall of silence which
>       > is continuing now. One of their top consultants was on site
>       > yesterday and after looking at the error helpfully concluded
>       > that he wasn't a Windows guy. This pathetic lack of support
>       > is the reason I threw it out on the list in the hope that the
>       > /regserver switch did something generic that I could track to
>       > a registry key or file.
>       >
>       > I truly hate this software. Some of their report fields are
>       > called From and To which stop reports from running because I
>       > think they correspond to SQL commands....I've worked with
>       > some rubbish, but this could be one of the worst.
>       >
>       > Happy days!
>       >
>       >
>       > 2009/8/18 Christopher Bodnar <[email protected]>
>       >
>       >
>       >       It could be doing anything. Switches are hard coded in
>       > the application. The developers can create any switches they
>       > want, to do anything, and call them whatever they please. You
>       > should really ask the application vendor what the switches do.
>       >
>       >
>       >
>       >       What is the application? Maybe someone on the list is
>       > familiar with it, and can give some advice.
>       >
>       >
>       >
>       >       Chris Bodnar, MCSE
>       >       Sr. Systems Engineer
>       >       Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services
>       >       Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
>       >       Email: [email protected]
>       >       Phone: 610-807-6459
>       >       Fax: 610-807-6003
>       >
>       >
>       > ________________________________
>       >
>       >
>       >       From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]]
>       >
>       >       Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 10:12 AM
>       >       To: NT System Admin Issues
>       >       Subject: Help with /regserver
>       >
>       >
>       >
>       >       Hi guys / gals
>       >
>       >       I have a (POS) application that, unsurprisingly, is
>       > vital to our business. The company that manufacture said app
>       > have decided that they need to use a special executable to
>       > run it, which keeps the version updated. It's a FoxPro app
>       > (blech) and for some reason, when they run it, the first
>       > thing it does is call the main executable with the /regserver
>       > switch. I'm not sure what this does, and would appreciate it
>       > if someone could educate me, because unless you run it with
>       > admin rights (which ain't happening on my watch), the thing
>       > fails with the error "Visual FoxPro could not start. Could
>       > not load resources". Running with admin rights - all OK.
>       >
>       >       I've been looking at process monitor output all
>       > afternoon and can't work out what it's doing, I've been
>       > messing about with registry permissions and file permissions
>       > for what seems like an eternity. The great Google-God appears
>       > short on inspiration (for me, anyway). Can anyone tell me
>       > what this mysterious /regserver switch does, as I am sure
>       > something in our mandatory profile is preventing it 
> from executing?
>       >
>       >       As always, thanks gratefully provided in advance.
>       >
>       >
>       >       JRR
>       >
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> you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right 
> answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the 
> kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
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