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Article #6803Re: Refresh Windows Registry
From: Jim Dodd
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 18:45
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 18:45
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Danila Vershinin wrote: > That's weird. everything should be refreshed already (without that closing > and reopening of key). Saying that because the changes when you use the > WriteInteger..WriteString and so on methods are actually done when you put > them in the code, not when you close the key you are working with. > What I think is that Grety should rephrase the question. Maybe you mean > Refresh an associated TTreeView object (not in Regedit) ? That I would > understand... > > Cheers, Danila > > From the MS Help for RegCloseKey: "The RegCloseKey function does not necessarily write information to the registry before returning; it can take as much as several seconds for the cache to be flushed to the hard disk. If an application must explicitly write registry information to the hard disk, it can use the RegFlushKey function. RegFlushKey, however, uses many system resources and should be called only when necessary. " So, it seems to me that closing the Registry key is the minimum needed to update the Registry. Jim Dodd Onset Computer Corp.
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