Where can a person go to learn about Reg Edits? I would like to try and learn what they do and the meaning of the different Registry. WHere to Start?
Thank you
Here's a good article you can start with:
http://www.wmexperts.com/articles/howto/how_to_edit_the_registry.html
Yes that was a good article but already know how to edit but was wondering how do I learn what all the different keys and subkeys values and settings do. I find this all very interesting but want to learn more. Thank you
Stevevo said:
Yes that was a good article but already know how to edit but was wondering how do I learn what all the different keys and subkeys values and settings do. I find this all very interesting but want to learn more. Thank you
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Then just ask! That article went over the basics of what each value does, what exactly are you trying to do?
Learn what it all does. I want to find out what all the numbers and things mean when I set something to a value. Like when you change the GPSMode from 2 to 1 what is happening. I heard that 1 is using the phone for the GPS or standalone. I think there are 4 different numbers in this field. Just would like more. Thank you.
Stevevo said:
Learn what it all does. I want to find out what all the numbers and things mean when I set something to a value. Like when you change the GPSMode from 2 to 1 what is happening. I heard that 1 is using the phone for the GPS or standalone. I think there are 4 different numbers in this field. Just would like more. Thank you.
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Well if that's the case, then you need to just read up everywhere you can. The article you read gave you the idea of how a registry works. Every key value does something different, so there is no extensive guide on what certain values do, it depends on what your changing. There are no "categories" of changes really, each key has different values. Typically when changing "DWORD" values, from 0 to 1, or visa versa, your choosing on/off, or yes/no. As for the GPS, it's also a "DWORD" value, but its affects have a different change on the system.
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After a short search, I found enough info to allow me to edit the registry to get my trin to show the US date format (MM/dd/yy) instead of the Asian format (dd/MM/yy).
I'm sure this is old hat to many of you out there, but for those of you who would like this "fix", here it is (credit to mikechannon for the pieces of the puzzle):
Go to HKLM\nls\overrides
create a string called SSDte
give that string the value MM/dd/yy (or anything else you want from the legend provided here )
Then hold the power button down until you get the message that data may be lost. Tap yes and then long press the power button to restart.
If you don't do it this way, your changes may be lost and you will have to repeat the process.
I hope this helps someone who, like me (a silly American), may have been getting continually confused by things like how I got to the 28th month on 28/2/07!!!
psargent said:
After a short search, I found enough info to allow me to edit the registry to get my trin to show the US date format (MM/dd/yy) instead of the Asian format (dd/MM/yy).
I'm sure this is old hat to many of you out there, but for those of you who would like this "fix", here it is (credit to mikechannon for the pieces of the puzzle):
Go to HKLM\nls\overrides
create a string called SSDte
give that string the value MM/dd/yy (or anything else you want from the legend provided here )
Then hold the power button down until you get the message that data may be lost. Tap yes and then long press the power button to restart.
If you don't do it this way, your changes may be lost and you will have to repeat the process.
I hope this helps someone who, like me (a silly American), may have been getting continually confused by things like how I got to the 28th month on 28/2/07!!!
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Well... being no silly american I just used Settings Regional Settings.... didnt that work for you?
saminegm said:
Well... being no silly american I just used Settings Regional Settings.... didnt that work for you?
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WOW. I even saw that when I was looking for the answer - I just must have looked right over it! <Red face of embarrasment> Well at least it got me some more reg editing experience!
I'll see you all later when I post some more pointless info.
There is one thing I'd like a reg hack for... and that's to change the word 'mobile' in contacts to 'cell'.
Actually, make that two things, the keyboard is the wrong format or something, the enter key and backslash keys need fixin' -- but I guess it won't be a quick reg hack either.
I have read much info on registry editing and I have done one successfully already. However on the wiki the popular registry edits seem to not be in the same format. For removing the battery icon the instruction is:
Remove the Battery Icon:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Services\Power]
"ShowIcon"=dword:00000000
Is this simplay saying change the value of the existing ShowIcon to 0? Or am I supposed to create a new entry for this?
pstritt said:
I have read much info on registry editing and I have done one successfully already. However on the wiki the popular registry edits seem to not be in the same format. For removing the battery icon the instruction is:
Remove the Battery Icon:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Services\Power]
"ShowIcon"=dword:00000000
Is this simplay saying change the value of the existing ShowIcon to 0? Or am I supposed to create a new entry for this?
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In the example you give, where the key already exists it means you change the value to 0. This is a fairly typical case where "1" means do/show the item and "0" means do not do the thing.
Mike
mikechannon said:
In the example you give, where the key already exists it means you change the value to 0. This is a fairly typical case where "1" means do/show the item and "0" means do not do the thing.
Mike
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Hello, Mike:
I have enjoyed your posts, good advice and humor. Keep up the good work!
I am a slovenly user with above average interest in computers, and tweaking them to get them as I want them. No programming or other tech training, however. Is there a good tutorial "PPC Registry Editing for Dummies" out there somewhere?
I don't understand, for example, what the practical meaning for those of us who want to tweak the reg, come up against "this is a hex edit" versus "Dword."
Everyone knows that reg editing can be very dangerous. Unfortunately, I don't see a tutorial for it on this forum.
Thanks
Ben
Greetings from Florida, USA
BigBen said:
Hello, Mike:
I have enjoyed your posts, good advice and humor. Keep up the good work!
I am a slovenly user with above average interest in computers, and tweaking them to get them as I want them. No programming or other tech training, however. Is there a good tutorial "PPC Registry Editing for Dummies" out there somewhere?
I don't understand, for example, what the practical meaning for those of us who want to tweak the reg, come up against "this is a hex edit" versus "Dword."
Everyone knows that reg editing can be very dangerous. Unfortunately, I don't see a tutorial for it on this forum.
Thanks
Ben
Greetings from Florida, USA
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Hi Ben and thank you
Unfortunately I don't have much time at present and possibly for a few days. I will hunt around for a guide to PPC reg editing. For now I'll just say that I use PHM reg editor (the freeware one) that allows enties to be made in different formats, decimal, hex etc (really just different formats for the same thing.) I would always say use a good full backup programme I use SPB backup so if things go awry it really doesn't matter as within 5-10 minutes you can revert back.
Cheers
Mike
mikechannon said:
Hi Ben and thank you
Unfortunately I don't have much time at present and possibly for a few days. I will hunt around for a guide to PPC reg editing. For now I'll just say that I use PHM reg editor (the freeware one) that allows enties to be made in different formats, decimal, hex etc (really just different formats for the same thing.) I would always say use a good full backup programme I use SPB backup so if things go awry it really doesn't matter as within 5-10 minutes you can revert back.
Cheers
Mike
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Thanks, Mike. Please don't spend any time looking for this. I thought you might know of a guide, but don't trouble yourself. I have Googled and not come up with anything useful to me, but something will come up.
Regards,
Ben
Hello,
I'm trying to cleanup my registry the I run into this InprocServer32. So I would just like to ask if somebody is knowledgable with InprocServer32? I've searched and this is what I found, it does not help much. I don't know if it is just me being lame or something. Is it safe to delete this registry entry? Btw, it is reported having a missing file \Windows\pvbform2.dll...
InprocServer32
Registers a 32-bit in-process server and specifies the threading model of the apartment the server can run in.
Registry Entry
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\
{CLSID}\InprocServer32 = <path to 32-bit inproc server>
\ThreadingModel = <threading model>
adomila, why don't u back up ur registry and then delete the entry to check its effects. If prob then use the backup to restore ur Atom to the last state. That way u will experiment and gain knowledge to spread it among us at the xda .
better yet...
tjkhattak61 said:
adomila, why don't u back up ur registry and then delete the entry to check its effects. If prob then use the backup to restore ur Atom to the last state. That way u will experiment and gain knowledge to spread it among us at the xda .
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hi tjkhattak61, thank you for taking time to reply and your suggestion. actually i already thought of this and have done it, already but the problem with this method is, it can not actually pin point or narrow what problem had occured, if it(prob) is not related to the said InprocServer32. i keep installing/uninstalling new great stuffs being introduced here in xda developers damn those great developer, can't resists it, hehehe... testing, configuring, here and there... seriously, it would be better if somebody fully knowledgeable on this gave us the most accurate data, we might mislead others via the trial & error method-like, mentioned above.
i'm still hoping that somebody out there, might be familiar with this...
tjkhattak61 said:
adomila, why don't u back up ur registry and then delete the entry to check its effects. If prob then use the backup to restore ur Atom to the last state. That way u will experiment and gain knowledge to spread it among us at the xda .
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wow, you're an ass. =)
I'm working witht he Diamond 2 Gsensor sdk on my Diamond and I have been able to successfully add string values to the whitlist section in the gsensors registry. (HKCU\Software\HTC\HTCSENSOR\Whitelist)
The whitelist values enable rotation. My question is how can I create a "Blacklist" so to speak that would contain values for apps I dont want rotated? Is it possible? If so is it as easy as crating the said paths?
Anybody?...
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I'm working witht he Diamond 2 Gsensor sdk on my Diamond and I have been able to successfully add string values to the whitlist section in the gsensors registry. (HKCU\Software\HTC\HTCSENSOR\Whitelist)
The whitelist values enable rotation. My question is how can I create a "Blacklist" so to speak that would contain values for apps I dont want rotated? Is it possible? If so is it as easy as crating the said paths?
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I have not tried this yet myself but i would guess, and tell me if im wrong, that the only time it will rotate is if the app is in the white list if its not in the white list then it will not rotate.
irus said:
I have not tried this yet myself but i would guess, and tell me if im wrong, that the only time it will rotate is if the app is in the white list if its not in the white list then it will not rotate.
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Well this is true, however, the whitelist uses class names to determine what apps to rotate. The class name "dialog" refers to multiple apps like the phone dialer, call status, sms composer, and more. So when I add "dialog" in the whitelist it rotates all of these. I would like to try and make an exception list that uses the process name or window name as the identifyer. That way I could have dialog in the whitelist and cprog.exe in the exceptions or blacklist key. It may not be possible but thats what I'm asking I guess.
bump... c'mon guys theres gotta be an answer to this.
I found this in http://www.htcmania.com/showthread.php?t=36214
is in spanish.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\HTC\HTCSENSOR\GSensor\M oduleName]
"Album"="\\Windows\\HTCAlbum.exe"
"Calculator"="\\Windows\\htcCalculator.exe"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\HTC\HTCSENSOR\GSensor\W hiteList]
"TestHTCSensorDemoAP"="TESTHTCSENSORDEMOAP"
"Album"="HTCAlbumClass"
"Calculator"="CalculatorMain"
"Opera"="Opera_MainWndClass"
"SMS"="Dialog"
"Calendar"="Calendar"
"FileExplorer"="FEXPLORE"
"PROGRAM"="Explore"
"IExplore"="IExplore"
"Manila"="Manila"
vengadorhq said:
I found this in http://www.htcmania.com/showthread.php?t=36214
is in spanish.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\HTC\HTCSENSOR\GSensor\M oduleName]
"Album"="\\Windows\\HTCAlbum.exe"
"Calculator"="\\Windows\\htcCalculator.exe"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\HTC\HTCSENSOR\GSensor\W hiteList]
"TestHTCSensorDemoAP"="TESTHTCSENSORDEMOAP"
"Album"="HTCAlbumClass"
"Calculator"="CalculatorMain"
"Opera"="Opera_MainWndClass"
"SMS"="Dialog"
"Calendar"="Calendar"
"FileExplorer"="FEXPLORE"
"PROGRAM"="Explore"
"IExplore"="IExplore"
"Manila"="Manila"
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Thanks, I have that much so far but I'm still looking for a way to specify between cprog and tmail in the whitelist because they both use Dialog as a class name. Thanks for the effort though
can someone make it cab file?
powe6563 said:
Thanks, I have that much so far but I'm still looking for a way to specify between cprog and tmail in the whitelist because they both use Dialog as a class name. Thanks for the effort though
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Did you try:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\HTC\HTCSENSOR\GSensor\M oduleName]
"Album"="\\Windows\\HTCAlbum.exe"
"Calculator"="\\Windows\\htcCalculator.exe"
"SMS"="\\Windows\\tmail.exe"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\HTC\HTCSENSOR\GSensor\W hiteList]
"TestHTCSensorDemoAP"="TESTHTCSENSORDEMOAP"
"Album"="HTCAlbumClass"
"Calculator"="CalculatorMain"
"Opera"="Opera_MainWndClass"
"SMS"="Dialog"
Seems logical to me. But as always the logical thing isn't the right choice by definition.
One tip though, if you want to know something, just try! That's the way other people get their knowledge about these things....
And afterwards, please share your results with the rest of the world ofcourse!
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Did you try:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\HTC\HTCSENSOR\GSensor\M oduleName]
"Album"="\\Windows\\HTCAlbum.exe"
"Calculator"="\\Windows\\htcCalculator.exe"
"SMS"="\\Windows\\tmail.exe"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\HTC\HTCSENSOR\GSensor\W hiteList]
"TestHTCSensorDemoAP"="TESTHTCSENSORDEMOAP"
"Album"="HTCAlbumClass"
"Calculator"="CalculatorMain"
"Opera"="Opera_MainWndClass"
"SMS"="Dialog"
Seems logical to me. But as always the logical thing isn't the right choice by definition.
One tip though, if you want to know something, just try! That's the way other people get their knowledge about these things....
And afterwards, please share your results with the rest of the world ofcourse!
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I've tried, negative...
dingil said:
I've tried, negative...
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Same here. I still havent figured out a way around this.
Hello, been trying to figure out how to change hex values in a X1 panel (only one dll file). I found what I want to change, I can edit the bits manually or automatically thru XVI32. But as soon as I load it into X1 the panel just freezes on load. Is it not possible to change anything within a dll file without making it corrupt? I open and save it and it works. I open and swap places of two letters and it freezes. Trying to figure this out, but it's driving me insane just about now. Maybe someone has some words of wisdom for me?
Did you re-sign after the edit?
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Did you re-sign after the edit?
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Yes I used siggner.exe, got successful on signing, but not timestamped. Is timestamp a neccessity?
Could someone perhaps explain to me how to extend a bit-string? I can replace the characters that are there, but how do I replace the current string with a longer string without messing up the references?
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Could someone perhaps explain to me how to extend a bit-string? I can replace the characters that are there, but how do I replace the current string with a longer string without messing up the references?
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To put it simply, you can't.
You can remove data and leave blank areas because all pointers refer to the same important locations afterwards, but adding data you can't without changing every reference to that and every following location.
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To put it simply, you can't.
You can remove data and leave blank areas because all pointers refer to the same important locations afterwards, but adding data you can't without changing every reference to that and every following location.
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Figured it would be something like that. But maybe it is possible to create a script which does this automatically if I input how many bits have been added at which offset..? Guessing it's not since then someone should already have made it by now..?
Nope
Again, not so simple, you would have to disassemble the DLL in order to find all the references to other locations and rewrite the DLL. I'm not aware of a simpler way.