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Re: Applications that write to the registry, are they portable?
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2022 7:56 pm
by Andrew Lee
Holy cow.. that's complicated!
Re: Applications that write to the registry, are they portable?
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2022 8:53 am
by Midas
Andrew Lee wrote: ↑That's complicated!
Apparently, it's also poorly implemented... (or it least was, since what follows is a rather old reference):
I've just spent a couple of weeks reverse engineering the binary format completely for our hivex library and shell which now supports both reading and writing to the registry. So now I can tell you why the Registry sucks from a technical point of view too...
Re: Applications that write to the registry, are they portable?
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2022 6:23 pm
by Andrew Lee
Midas wrote: ↑Fri Jul 29, 2022 8:53 am
Apparently, it's also poorly implemented... (or it least was, since what follows is a rather old reference):
I've just spent a couple of weeks reverse engineering the binary format completely for our hivex library and shell which now supports both reading and writing to the registry. So now I can tell you why the Registry sucks from a technical point of view too...
Wow, that was brutal, but an engaging read!