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Article #4134Re: MicroSoft's "Common Applications" and Word For Windows
From: Jan Gunnar Moe
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 1994 11:13
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 1994 11:13
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In article <raivo.185.00086114@anal.chem.uva.nl> raivo@anal.chem.uva.nl (Raivo Kilg) writes: >NO! Don't delete reg.dat - there can be some vital information for other >applications. reg.dat is updated from *.reg, what are ASCII files. You can >easily edit them and update reg.dat. Just double-click from File manager on >*.reg file and you should see message - "Registration Database updated!". >reg files for MSAPPS are in the MSAPPS\* subdirectories. Thanks for fast correction! After reading your message, I have tried to find the source for the "delete reg.dat-method". It turned out that the method is described in the book "Take Word for Windows To The Edge by Guy Gallo, ISBN1-56276-079-3, page 403. However on this page, the safer way of using regedit.exe to update reg.dat is described first, as the primary method! I understand your advice against deleting reg.dat this way: If some application put OLE information in REG.DAT without putting the same information in WIN.INI, then this information will be lost when a deleted REG.DAT is reconstructed using the new version of WIN.INI. So I'll use regedit for the future. Thanks to you and the net! Jan Gunnar
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