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strangerstill · December 14th, 2002, 10:36 PM

Yeah, you just need to merge your own registry branches into the hive. I don't use Windows any more but from memory you need to create a branch at HKCR\.abc which references a branch at HKCR\abcfile or similar. The easiest thing to do would be to make the changes to your own registry hive with Open With, then examine HKCR to see where it's added branches.
You can then export those branches to .reg files, merge the files together and then distribute the .reg file (again from memory I think regedit.exe can be used to merge in a .reg)
Alternatively, you can add the branches programatically - obviously it's doable via the Windows API, but also I think VB has registry methods and even, should you so wish, the WSH (I remember being able to accomplish some reasonably sophisticated registry manipulation in a .wsf/.js/.vbs)

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strangerstill Ultimate Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 1,542	Yeah, you just need to merge your own registry branches into the hive. I don't use Windows any more but from memory you need to create a branch at HKCR\.abc which references a branch at HKCR\abcfile or similar. The easiest thing to do would be to make the changes to your own registry hive with Open With, then examine HKCR to see where it's added branches. You can then export those branches to .reg files, merge the files together and then distribute the .reg file (again from memory I think regedit.exe can be used to merge in a .reg) Alternatively, you can add the branches programatically - obviously it's doable via the Windows API, but also I think VB has registry methods and even, should you so wish, the WSH (I remember being able to accomplish some reasonably sophisticated registry manipulation in a .wsf/.js/.vbs)