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Registry comparison for before and after

Anyone aware of a program that can compare the registry/files for before and after a program is installed and uninstalled? Trying to figure out what wasteful entries a certain program is leaving behind that is affecting my SIP menu. A nice snapshot program with comparison would be handy.
Hardware: P3300 WM5

Sure.
Windiff or SKTracker. See my WinDiff tutorial at http://forum.brighthand.com/showthread.php?t=215073

Thanks Menneisyys - I just came across SKTracker, will check out your tutorial also.

Try ssnap (free: http://s-k-tools.com/index.html?m_util.html ) from sk-tools and any diff program (very good to find added, deleted, modified files, and modifications in the registry)
And my last findings:
use dotFred's taskMgr (builtin regedit: check option MULTI_SZ,MUI_SZ in RGU format), export registry (before and after), rename *.reg to *.RGU , modify first line (should be REGEDIT4) and use RGUCOMPARER http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=885358 - great tool.

MortScript Help: Parsing a text file and storing values in the registry

I have a text file seperated by several lines. Its sort of like an XML file, just custom made.
It looks something like this:
<Time1>
-Schedule: 8:00 PM
-What: Doctor
<Time2>
etc...
Can someone show me an example of how I would parse this file? What I wanted to do is the following:
I have five time locations Time1, time2, etc... They each have the category -Shedule and -What. I want to sort through all the Times. In each time I want to extract the info that appears AFTER -schedule and AFTER -what (EG: 8:00PM, Doctor) and insert it into the registry. The registry would be formed like:
HKLM Schedulertime\ With sub directories of Time1, time2, etc... In each time there would be a string (I guess) of Shedule and of What. And the script would insert the values into each time in the registry.
Can someone write a script showing me how its done? Thanks in advance.

Question for ROM cooks - possible to change system folders?

Advanced Config has a section for setting new values for "My Documents", "My Ringtones", etc. but many of them don't actually work.
I'd love to be able to use "\Donny" instead of "\My Documents", etc.
Call it irrational, but I *HATE* the Windows defaults of "My [whatever]". I always change them (via the registry) on my desktop/laptop PCs, and it drives me nuts that I can't do it in WM.
So, is it possible during the ROM cooking process to make such changes? Or are they simply hard-coded into the WM OS.
If they're hard-coded, is it in a single DLL? (That I could maybe hack with a hex editor?)

These are all variables that you can control at the time of cooking, by editing various .rgu's in the system folder. Look to the folders with Lang or 0409 (or your regional code) in the name, as these are the language-localization strings.. all folder names are considered language-localized as "My Documents" is obviously different in each language
Use a text editor that supports unicode such as EmEditor to edit these .rgu's.
Hope it helps!

That's AWESOME! I've been looking for a reason to start cooking... now I have one!
One follow-up question, if I may...
Instead of hard-coding the values, can you tell it to look in the registry (so the "Shell" entries actually work)?
Thanks for the reply!

The .rgu's represent the registry as it's compiled by the ROM kitchen, so editing the .rgu's will have the same effect as editing the registry.

Da_G said:
The .rgu's represent the registry as it's compiled by the ROM kitchen, so editing the .rgu's will have the same effect as editing the registry.
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Not sure if you're missing my point or if I'm not understanding you.
If the .rgu's represent the registry as it's compiled then the locations for My Documents, Program Files, etc. would all be hard coded in the ROM, and once again, changing the settings in HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders won't actually do anything. Right?
So, I'm asking if there's a way to put some sort of magic pointer (or maybe leave it blank?) to say, "If you want to know the location of 'My Documents', check the registry settings at HKCU\....\Shell Folders"

[REQ] utility to change the default program assignment

Hi,
i am looking for a utility to change the default program assignment.
So to change the default program for jpg or mp3.
This program is somewhere here, but I can not find it.
with friendly greet
starbase64

Moved as not software release..
Total Commander can change the default app for file extensions.

AdvancedConfig also allows you to change file associations.

Hi,
Thanks for your help, but that's not what I want.
I am looking for a special program that must be here somewhere.
with friendly greet
starbase64

All this info is held in the registry, but it is a two step job.
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mp3] has a (Default) data value of 'MP3File'
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MP3File\Shell\Open\Command] has a value of 'wmplayer.exe "%1"'
The file type has to be converted to a file type string to get to the correct subkey value in order to find the application that will be used to try and open it.
Another example :-
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.doc] 'docfile'
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\docfile\Shell\Open\Command] 'pword.exe %1'
These values can be changed with any registry editor.

Is there any registy editor can modify binary value?

Dear all
Any one could provide one registy editor can modify binary value? I really need it to complete something, Thx.

It can be done with provxml. Look up the format for binary registry data in XML provisioning, and then use one of the many provxml apps such as DiagProvXML (or write your own one-off, which I do all the time) to process it on the phone.
Requires being interop-unlocked and on a phone which supports provxml, of course, but that's actually a bigger set of phones than the ones that have working registry editors right now (even if interop-unlock is difficult on HTC).