On Jul 23, 6:07 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Well, I ran Process Monitor with some filters enabled to only watch Thunderbird and MS Word. Unfortunately, that didn't give me any of the registry edits, so I disabled my filters and ran it without. Now I have a log file with 28,000 entries. It's amazing to see all the stuff that happens in just a few moments, but how am I supposed to parse this mess?
Explorer.exe and outlook express do thousands of the registry calls and the paths they manipulate vary wildly. Oh well, I'll be off the clock in about 15 minutes so it can wait until Monday. Thanks for your help. I'll post if I figure out anything...hopefully you'll do the same. --- Sorry for not replying earlier ... I searched this list for the topic (Python MAPI) a few times but couldn't find it - not sure why - maybe Google Groups's indexing gets messed up sometimes ... Yes, so many entries would be a problem to parse manually ... That's why I suggested using a grep for Windows - or, preferably, an egrep - which is a more powerful version of grep; e.g. basic grep only allows you to use one regexp at a time - while egrep allows you to use extended regular expressions, such as "pattern1|pattern2", also "patt(e|u)rn(1|2)" which looks in parallel for pattern1, patturn1, pattern2 and patturn2 - I used a made-up example where the spelling of pattern could be wrong, but it works for any other cases of alternative patterns and subpatterns as well. Not sure if there is any egrep for Windows - try Googling. If not, and the problem is important enough, you might want to install Cygwin (its a big download, so first check if it _does_ have egrep in it). Vasudev -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list