Registry Refresh

[Lee]

Does anyone know of a way to force a refresh or reload of
the registry without a logoff or reboot. We need to push
out a registry key change which normally would not take
effect until the user logs off or reboots - we're hoping
that we can force the change immediately.

Thanks

 

[Rajiv Sharma]

create a ".ini" file
and run it with regini <filename>
it will change effect without rebooting.

 

[Martin]

Does anyone know of a way to force a refresh or reload of
the registry without a logoff or reboot. We need to push
out a registry key change which normally would not take
effect until the user logs off or reboots - we're hoping
that we can force the change immediately.

Thanks

Open Folder Options and select the File Types tab - i'm 90% sure this forces
Windows to reload the Registry into memory.

Martin.

 

[David Candy]

The registry updates itself. As to if anything cares that is up to the individual program. Some things are read when a program starts and others everytime it's used.

This is not a registry issue. This is a whatever program that uses the setting issue.

 

[Kostas]

use ctrl+alt+del to bring up the TaskManager.Highlight the explorer.exe
process and click end task (Don't close TaskManager yet!) .Now go to
file/new task and write "explorer" without the quotes and click ok.. Done!

 

[Malcolm53ca]

Lee:
Were you able to find a working solution to your query?

I am in the same situation and looking for the same solution, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You
Malcolm

 

[raiderpb]

I was having the same problems. In my case it was trying to add a printer via a command line after importing the registry settings for a TCP/IP printer port.

The PrintUI/Add printer wizard would not pick up the new port.

I fixed this by adding a restart to the print spooler command.

Thus by restarting the service it refreshed the registry settings for that service.