Build Order / Missing Registry Keys

[Dwayne]

I'm looking for some feedback on the best approach on a component that
I'm working on. I've got a component called Missing Reg Keys. This
component contains about 200+ registry entries that MS left out of
their individual components which need these missing registry entries
so that messages written to the Event Log are meaningful.

Now I know if I leave the build order value at 1000 that these keys
will never get entered, but if I set them to 1001 they will. The
problem is I don't want nor have the time to manually go in and set
each Registry entry to 1001 in my component.

I'm wondering if I can just change the build order for the Component
itself so that it will be the last thing to get executed and add the
missing registry keys in my build but not sure if this is possible or
what value to use.

The other thing I'm wondering is if there is a tool out there that will
allow me to do a multiple edit to change the registry build order on
all of these registry entries. KM, perhaps you have another great tool
in your collection that would do this?

The quick and dirty way is to manually import the registry keys post
first boot but would like to avoid doing this going forward.

Thanks,

Dwayne

 

[KM]

Dwayne,

I don't have a tool for that but writing appropriate CMI script in this case wouldn't take much effort (more pricely - adopting
existing scrips ).

However, how about easy approach by just manually editing SLD files? Those are basically straight XML files.
All you have to do and to search and replace for something like BuildOrder="1000" in the SLD file where you got all (and only!)
registry entris you're working with.
Open that SLD file in Notepad, for instance.

 

[Dwayne]

I'm kicking myself for not thinking of opening the SLD file. Thanks
KM.