Registry polling

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Claudio Valderrama C.

Hello.

I had wondered many times why some badly written SW needs to poll the
registry continuosly. I've told that to Outpost people and to Symantec
people in the past. Now it comes this brief article that refreshes my mind:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/abouttn/subscriptions/flash/tips/tips_011106_2.mspx

The questions is why MSAS is doing that mad registry polling at intervals of
one second approx. Using sysinternals' Regmon it's easy to catch MSAS going
against MS guidelines.

C.
 
Remember that the beta1 product is largely code created by the Giant company.

Beta2 will be written to Microsoft standards, which I would hope will
include the one you are citing here. Want to let us know--when you see that
code?
 
Bill Sanderson said:
Remember that the beta1 product is largely code created by the Giant company.

Beta2 will be written to Microsoft standards, which I would hope will
include the one you are citing here.
Ok

Want to let us know--when you see that
code?
Click to expand...

I don't see code, Bill, since I don't have the sources. :-)
I can see the effect of different programs that go repetitively polling
their preferred registry keys. Of course, I have to use a registry tracer
like Mark Russinovich's tool to see the API calls.
(Not sure if this is what you were asking.)

C.
 
I understand--I just meant "when beta2 is available to you." If you were
able to see the effect of this issue in beta1, I expect you will be able to
make a similar test under beta2 and see whether it is different.


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