| VirtualReg Manager |
VirtualReg Manager is a utility which creates virtual registry files and is also able to edit them through a regedit-like interface. It provides command line support for automation. Feel free to include this application in your freeware. Since it's a .NET assembly, it works on every Windows platform.
- VirtualReg Manager (Windows platforms)
The main form (VirtualReg Manager) of this tool provides the visual interface to create a virtual registry. This can also be achieved through command line, as we'll see later. One can decide whether to virtualize a key along with its subkeys or not.
The virtual registry is an XML database. The format of this XML file looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0"
encoding="utf-8"?>
<VIRTUALREG>
<KEY Name="HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE">
<SUBKEYS>
<KEY Name="SOFTWARE">
<SUBKEYS>
<KEY Name="Microsoft">
<SUBKEYS>
<KEY Name="Fusion">
<VALUES>
<VALUE Name="ZapQuotaInKB" Type="REG_DWORD">F4240</VALUE>
<VALUE Name="DisableCacheViewer"
Type="REG_BINARY">AQAQAA==</VALUE>
<VALUE Name="ForceLog" Type="REG_DWORD">1</VALUE>
<VALUE Name="LogPath" Type="REG_SZ">YwA6AFwAAAA=</VALUE>
</VALUES>
<SUBKEYS>
<KEY Name="GACChangeNotification">
<SUBKEYS>
<KEY Name="Default">
<VALUES>
<VALUE
Name="Accessibility,1.0.5000.0,,b03f5f7f11d50a3a"
Type="REG_BINARY">yEWDMkwyxgE=</VALUE>
<VALUE Name="cscompmgd,7.0.5000.0,,b03f5f7f11d50a3a"
Type="REG_BINARY">ROfXLkwyxgE=</VALUE>
<VALUE
Name="CustomMarshalers,1.0.5000.0,,b03f5f7f11d50a3a"
Type="REG_BINARY">yEWDMkwyxgE=</VALUE>
Numbers are stored in hex format, whereas all other data is base64 encoded. The virtual registry file can be edited with VirtualReg Editor (vregedit), which is very user-friendly as its interface is identical to regedit's one.
Creating a virtual registry from the GUI is okay for manual task, but tools can use the program's command line to generate a virtual registry. In order to do that, a ".tovreg" file has to be passed as command line to the program. A tovreg file has this syntax:
[OPTIONS]
output="c:\....\fusion.vreg"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Fusion]
subkeys=true
As you can see, it's a simply ini file. If the "subkeys" parameter is missing, then subkeys are not virtualized.
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