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I'm trying to install a pre-Vista version of an app on this new Vista
machine. I keep getting re-asked for the serial. Here is why:
Upon first entering the serial, the app starts correctly and also writes
a binary *.reg file. All is well until I close the app. On restarting
the app, it wants the serial again. What it *should* have done is use
the *.reg to create registry entries, and then I wouldn't have to keep
re-registering. But Vista doesn't like that *.reg file. (I know, because
when I use regedit to try to import the *.reg, regedit will instead
tell me that it's not a valid *.reg file.) The wrinkle is that the app
accepts the registration as valid, deletes the *.reg file, but then
fails to make the corresponding registry entries.
So, does anybody know of a way to convert an older style binary reg file
to one (either script or binary) that Vista will understand? Thanks.
All works well on XP, no problem there.
machine. I keep getting re-asked for the serial. Here is why:
Upon first entering the serial, the app starts correctly and also writes
a binary *.reg file. All is well until I close the app. On restarting
the app, it wants the serial again. What it *should* have done is use
the *.reg to create registry entries, and then I wouldn't have to keep
re-registering. But Vista doesn't like that *.reg file. (I know, because
when I use regedit to try to import the *.reg, regedit will instead
tell me that it's not a valid *.reg file.) The wrinkle is that the app
accepts the registration as valid, deletes the *.reg file, but then
fails to make the corresponding registry entries.
So, does anybody know of a way to convert an older style binary reg file
to one (either script or binary) that Vista will understand? Thanks.
All works well on XP, no problem there.