- Usage of the section [RegistryCleanupIfEmpty]
Suppose a program named AppName writes its settings in the following two registry keys:
- HKCU\Software\AppName_1\settings_1
- HKCU\Software\AppName_2\settings_2
Furthermore after saving of these both registry keys by the launcher the registry keys HKCU\Software\AppName_1 and HKCU\Software\AppName_2 will be left empty.
Is it in this case correct, that I use the following code, where the key names are consecutive integers?
[RegistryCleanupIfEmpty] 1=HKCU\Software\AppName_1 2=HKCU\Software\AppName_2
Or can I instead also use the following code, where the key names are non-consecutive integers?
[RegistryCleanupIfEmpty] 1=HKCU\Software\AppName_1 1=HKCU\Software\AppName_2
- Usage of the section [RegistryCleanupForce]
Suppose a program named AppName writes its settings in the following two registry keys:
- HKCU\Software\AppName_1\settings_1
- HKCU\Software\AppName_2\settings_2
Furthermore the informations in these both registry keys are useless.
Is it in this case correct, that I use the following code, where the key names are consecutive integers?
[RegistryCleanupForce] 1=HKCU\Software\AppName_1\settings_1 2=HKCU\Software\AppName_2\settings_2
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Usage of the sections [RegistryCleanupIfEmpty] and [RegistryCleanupForce]
February 18, 2013 - 9:06am
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Usage of the sections [RegistryCleanupIfEmpty] and [RegistryCleanupForce]
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1. Use consecutive numbers, always.
2. I can't think of a good use case for [RegistryCleanupForce]. Just use [RegistryCleanupIfEmpty], or better yet, [RegistryKeys] (yes, I've read that the information is useless).
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I've again thought about the topic of the use of consecutive numbers. And probably is it in every case necessary, where still left more than one empty registry key, that I must use for the key names consecutive integers. Accordingly it isn't important, if it's just a registry key with several subkeys or whether these are completely different registry keys. Apparently only the exact choice of the consecutive numbers is in certain cases significant, how it is described in the example case in the documentation.
If the keys are nested, do as the documentation shows.
If the keys are parallel (like in your post), it doesn't matter the order, as long as you begin in 1 and the numbers are consecutive.
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