Registry plugin: Bugs

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Star, * and [star]

I have a key which uses starts, like

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*MySoftware*
Exporting it to a reg-file write

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[star]MySoftware[star]
When I doubleclick the reg-file to write it to Registry, I get an error dialogue from TC:
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File not found!
"The system can not find the defined file."
Any ideas how to handle the * stars [star]?
TC 10.xx / #266191
Win 10 x64
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2Peter
See option "[ ] Use special symbols conversion (\\ -> [bslash])" in the plugin's options. In other words disable it (temporarily) when exporting values and then reenable it if necessary.

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Does this plugin also work in windows 10 professional?
Here it states win 2000 and newer: http://totalcmd.net/plugring/registry.html
But last version is from 2012.
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2dragonetti
Yes, it works the same way as in previous Windows versions.

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Thank you, this plugin is very useful!
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problems with default key in registry

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Hi.
When I use this plugin the default keys that are not set are not shown, unlike Regedit.
How can I visualize these keys to be able to modify them?
It seems that even if I create a default key it's not the one that is required by regedit, and I will get two "default" keys.
I had to modify the default mail client and I needed to modify one of these key and I could do it only by regedit.
Thank you for your help.
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Re: Registry plugin: Bugs

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2supermas
It should work when you add a value named exactly like the existing ones, i.e. "(Default)", without the quotes but including the parentheses. Nonetheless, this workaround is not exactly intuitive and also depends on the language used in the plugin.

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Re: Registry plugin: Bugs

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Is it possible to show the default keys?
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Re: Registry plugin: Bugs

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supermas wrote: 2021-08-17, 17:02 UTCIs it possible to show the default keys?
No, it's not, as far as I know. I admit that I also missed them on occasion.

PS: They're called default values, not default keys. Keys are the "folders" in the registry.

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Re: Registry plugin: Bugs

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2karapuz79
Recently, I was playing around with Windows PE, and while doing so, I (re)discovered another bug (or maybe two connected ones) in the 64-bit version of this plugin. It's impossible to show and (correctly) edit the data of binary values via the "Edit binary value" dialog. I repeat, this bug only occurs in the 64-bit version, the 32-bit version is fine.

Anybody can make the following test:
  1. Launch TC 64-bit. The version of TC and Windows don't matter; I tested TC 8.52a and 10.0 on Win7 and several other Windows versions.
  2. Install the Registry plugin if it's not already there.
  3. Open the Registry plugin and navigate to the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
  4. Press Enter (or double-click) on UserPreferencesMask. You'll see an empty "Value data" field, similar to the following:
    https://abload.de/image.php?img=tc_registry_binary_x6wlklw.png.
    The field is supposed to be filled with the hex representation of this value's data.
  5. Next, click into the "Value data" field and enter any characters you want. Although it's supposed to accept only hex values (0-9 and A-F), the plugin will accept anything:
    https://abload.de/image.php?img=tc_registry_binary_x6n8k7l.png
  6. When repeating the test in TC 32-bit, everything works fine:
    https://abload.de/image.php?img=tc_registry_binary_x8ucklp.png
This bug is especially annoying when running under WinPE because there's no WOW64 layer that would allow running TC 32-bit. I hope you can reproduce the bug, find it and fix it.

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Re: Registry plugin: Bugs

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2karapuz79
Since you didn't react in any way for more than six months, I just tried to send you an email to the mail address that's mentioned in the plugin's readme file. All I got was a "Mail delivery failed":

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SMTP error from remote server for TEXT command, host: mx.yandex.ru (77.88.21.249) reason: 552 5.2.2 Mailbox size limit exceeded 1671733627-6Rscvs0SF8c1-RQKGSTki
If you have a different mail address, please let me/us know. You can contact me by mail via this forum.

Does anyone have any way to contact karapuz79? If so, it would be great if one could point him to this thread again, and the bug I reported.

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