Compact the reg file while componentize a large application

[Jack Huang]

I was trying to componentize a large application with RegSnap to get
the difference of registry. There are more then 2000 entry in the list.
I cleaned some of them by searching string like "installer", but after
that, it still had more then 1900 entrys. Where can I find the related
document teach me how to identify which are important and which are
not? Or it's OK if I import them all?

 

[Guest]

I've been trying to find out about this myself! Any suggestions where to look?

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

Hello,

Try using regmon, regsnap and other tools that you can find. Something during the installation something during the runtime.
Unfortunately you must look at each entry and see if that entry is something important for certain application or not :-(
You will have to examine path in registry and based on that you will have an idea whether these changes are temporary or not and
whether you should include them or not. You should tell us what application you are trying to get componentized since someone might
have expirience with it.

Also you might read:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnxpembed/html/customxpecomp.asp

Regards,
Slobodan